The document provides biographical information about a composer born in Germany in 1900. It mentions that he was composing and performing concerts by age 12 and had various musical jobs before having 5 of his works performed in Germany by 1923. His first opera premiered in 1926. It also lists some of his genres and pieces, including a medieval murder ballad, and provides context about one of his operas which premiered in Berlin in 1925 and was meant as provocative entertainment but was revised to be less political.

1. Nick Garcia
Jovan Pittman
Alex Hellberg
Jose Casas
NICK & DA BOYZ

2.  Born in Germany in 1900
 Was composing and mounting concerts by age 12
 Had a wide range of musical occupations to start making a living
 By 1923, they had 5 full works performed in Germany
 First opera was performed in 1926
 Remarried his 1st wife a few years after their divorce
 Was a respected conductor and composer
 Died in 1950
BIO

3.  Moriat:
 “Deadly Deed”
 Medieval version of a Murder Ballad
 Waltz Section
 March Section
GENRES

4.  Premiered in Berlin in 1925
 Program: The harsh life of a beggar
 Review from Village Voice “[T]he work is not actively political as many of
______later works are, though he tried to make it so in subsequent rewritings. It
was meant as provocative entertainment for middle-class theatergoers – part
satire, part shock effects, part aesthetic innovation, part moral indictment, and
part sheer theatrical diversion…Wilson carefully removed all these aspects of the
piece, turning ___ and ___ middle-class wake-up call into dead entertainment for
rich people.”
 Influenced jazz artists who translate and transpose several pieces from this opera
THIS PIECE

5.  Minimalism
 Post-Modernism
 Nationalism
 Serialism
ASSOCIATED ISMS AND IDEAS