Rolv Yttrehus

Rolv Berger Yttrehus (born Duluth, Minnesota, March 12, 1926 – February 4, 2018) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

He held degrees from the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan and a Diploma from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He studied harmony with Nadia Boulanger and composition with Ross Lee Finney, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, and Goffredo Petrassi. He taught at the University of Missouri, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Rutgers University.

He regarded Arnold Schoenberg and Sessions as his principal influences.

He died in 2018.

List of works Six Pieces for Piano Solo (1942–45) Six Haiku (1960) pub. American Composers Alliance Music for Winds, Percussion, and Viola (1961) pub. American Composers Alliance Espressioni per Orchestra (1962) pub. American Composers Alliance Sextet (1964–70, revised 1974) pub. C. F. Peters Corporation Music for Winds, Percussion, 'Cello and Voices (1969) pub. Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM) Angstwagen (1971) pub. American Composers Alliance Quintet (1973) pub. Boelke-Bomart/Mobart Music Gradus ad Parnassum (1974–79) pub. American Composers Alliance Sonata for Percussion and Piano (1982) pub. C. F. Peters Corporation Explorations for Piano Solo (1985) pub. APNM Sonata for 'Cello and Piano (1988, revised 1989) pub. C. F. Peters Corporation Raritan Variations (1989) pub. APNM Symphony No. 1 (1998) pub. APNM Plectrum Spectrum (2000) pub. APNM Sextet II (2006) pub. APNM Laudate Milton Babbitt (2006) pub. APNM