David Joseph Gleba (b. 1956)
- Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis (1994)
Performers: Schola Cantorum of the Saint Gregory Society; members of the
New Haven Symphony Orchestra;
Nicholas Renouf (conductor)
Further info: David J. Gleba
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American organist, composer, and teacher. His father was an officer in
the United States Army. Due to his father's career, Gleba's family
traveled extensively during his childhood and adolescence, which
included a prolonged period living in Europe. He began teaching himself
to play the pianoforte at an early age. As a teenager, he studied piano
for one year with the late Leopold Godowsky III, who was a grandson of
the pianist Leopold Godowsky I, and a nephew of George and Ira Gershwin.
Gleba has served as an organist and music director at numerous
churches, which has fostered his particular fondness for sacred choral
music. Through intensive study of classical scores, he taught himself to
compose symphonies, sonatas, concerti, and other classical forms. He
insists on composing in the Viennese classical style of the second half
of the 18th Century. Today, he performs only occasionally. He teaches
harmony, counterpoint, composition, piano, harpsichord, clavichord, and
organ at his home in Branford, Connecticut.
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