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Heiss John

Aitken, Robert

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Four Lyric Pieces for Flute Alone

By Heiss John

J. Heiss: Four Lyric Pieces for solo flute was written in 1962 during studying in Aspen with Darius Milhaud (composition) and Albert Tipton (flute) and was first published in 1971.
Four Lyric Pieces is written as free atonal music where the third movement was composed as initial original solo piece: a tribute to a dancer friend. The main idea came from Stravinsky's ballet music where long note is cut off by the short note as some sort of gesture. Darius Milhaud insisted on writing additional three movements as part of school assignment.

Leone Buyse

1994, Orchard

1. Andante rubato

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Leone Buyse

1994, Orchard

2. Allegro scherzando

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Leone Buyse

1994, Orchard

3. Lento rubato

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Leone Buyse

1994, Orchard

4. Animato

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Fenwick Smith

2016, Albany Records / Orchard

1. Andante rubato

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Fenwick Smith

2016, Albany Records / Orchard

2. Allegro scherzando

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Fenwick Smith

2016, Albany Records / Orchard

3. Lento rubato

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Fenwick Smith

2016, Albany Records / Orchard

4. Animato

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Heiss John

John Heiss (1938–2023) was an influential American composer, flutist, and educator who served as a vital link between the rigorous academic modernism of the mid-20th century and the practical world of professional performance.
Born in New York City, Heiss grew up in a household that valued both intellectual inquiry and the arts. This dual interest led him to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Lehigh University (1960).
While a math student, he remained a serious flutist, studying with Arthur Lora and James Pappoutsakis. His mathematical background deeply influenced his later analytical approach to acoustics and pitch organization.
He moved into full-time music at Princeton University, earning his MFA in 1967. There, he studied under the titans of American serialism and electronic music, including Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, and Earl Kim. This education provided him with a sophisticated theoretical framework that he would eventually apply to his compositions.
Heiss is most significantly defined by his 50-year tenure at the New England Conservatory (NEC), where he founded the Contemporary Ensemble and taught composition, flute, and music theory.
Heiss was a pioneer in the study of extended flute techniques. His 1972 article in Perspectives of New Music, "For the Flute: A New Sound-Palette," became a foundational text for composers and flutists globally, detailing the acoustics of multiphonics and microtones.
His music is characterized by structural transparency and a high degree of timbral nuance. While his language was often atonal, his works retain a lyrical, gestural quality rooted in his own experience as a performer.
Some of his most notable compositions for flute: Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1962), Five Pieces for Flute and Cello (1963), Four Movements for Three Flutes (1969), The Flute Concerto (1977), Etudes for solo flute (1979), Epigrams for flute and percussion (1985), Mosaics #1 (1986).