Harry Freedman (Composer)
Born: 5th April 1922, Łódź, Poland
Died: 16th September 2005, Toronto, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Harry Freedman (Henryk Frydmann), was a Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including the scores to films such as The Bloody Brood (1959), Isabel (1968), The Act of the Heart (1970), The Pyx (1973) and The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog (1980), and composed a substantial amount of chamber music. He also composed music for six ballets, an opera, some incidental music for the theatre, and a few vocal art songs and choral works. He was awarded a Juno Award in 1996 for his symphonic work Touchings, which was recorded by the Esprit Orchestra on the Nexus label. He won the 1998 composition prize at the International Rostrum of Composers for Borealis, a symphonic work co-commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Soundstreams Canada, and CBC Radio.
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- Anerca (1)
- Borealis (1)
- Images 'Musical Impressions of 3 Canadian Paintings' (1)
- Indigo (1)
- Laurentian Moods – Suite of French Canadian Folk Songs (1)
- Manipulating Mario (1)
- Oiseaux Exotiques Suite (1)
- Spirit Song (1)
- Toccata (2)
- Toccata for Flute & Clarinet (1)
- Touchings (2)
- Trois poemes de Jacques Prevert (1)
- Vocalises (1)