Ned Rorem Cause of Death

The late Ned Rorem was an American Composer and Diarist who won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976 for his Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra. Ned Rorem is tagged as “the world’s best composer of art songs”.

Ned Rorem was the author of sixteen books which include five volumes of diaries and collections of lectures and criticism. He was also a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award; in 1998 and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (1951), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1957), and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1968).

Ned Rorem was born on October 23, 1923, in Richmond, Indiana to his parents, C. (Clarence) Rufus Rorem (1894–1988) and his wife, the former Gladys W. Miller. He had an elder sister, identified as Rosemary. Ned Rorem then moved to Chicago to work for the American Hospital Association.

Ned Rorem earned his high school education at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and the American Conservatory of Music. Ned Rorem continued his education at Northwestern University before and briefly learned at Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School in New York City. He studied composition under Bernard Wagenaar at Juilliard. He has his B.A. in 1946 and his M.A. degree, along with the $1,000 George Gershwin Memorial Prize in composition, in 1948.

Per records, Ned Rorem had good relationships with four big-name men in music. This includes Leonard Bernstein, Noel Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson. Most of his private life was spent around James Holmes as they spent three decades together in New York City.

James Holmes was an organist and choir director and died in 1999. Ned Rorem died in the presence of friends and family, according to Boosey & Hawkes. Ned Rorem has six nieces and nephews and eleven grandnieces and grandnephews.