THE PATRONAGE PROJECT

Write a letter to a composer explaining in detail that you, as a patron of the arts, wish to commission him or her to write a multi-movement piece of music for you according to your specifications. You should write a request for a minimum of three movements.
Your letter should be in three parts:
Part 1. Introduce yourself as someone living in the style period of the composer you choose. Are you a king or queen, prince or princess, count or countess, baron or baroness? (For this project, you may be living in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, or in our current time.) Are you a bishop, archbishop in the church? Or are you a successful, well-off captain of industry who is or wishes to be a patron of the arts? Are you an entrepreneur with newfound wealth and good intentions to spread it? Perhaps you inherited all of your wealth; if so, from where? Describe yourself and your background that provides you with the wealth necessary to commission a piece of music from a composer.
Part 2. Write about the composer you have chosen. Explain to him or her what you know about them, what you know about music they have written before, what you like about their music, and why you are choosing them over all of the other composers.
Part 3. Tell the composer what exactly you want from them in the multi-movement piece of music they write for you. Consider what style period the composer you’ve chosen worked or works in. In your commission proposal, be specific about the matters listed here. Your details should be consistent with the style period in which your composer lived or lives. The piece you commission should be based on your knowledge and repeated listenings of previous work of the composer. Your commission should consist of a minimum of three movements (or songs if a song cycle). If an opera, you should state the number of acts, and the number and affect of arias, recitatives, and choruses in each act.
the list of composers you may choose from to commission a work as part of the Music Patronage Project:

Adams, John
Adolphe, Julia
Andriessen, Louis
Bach, Johann Sebastien
Barilari, Elbio Rodríguez
Bartok, Bela
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Berlioz, Hector
Bjarnason, Daníel
Bolcom, William
Borodin, Alexander
Botti, Susan
Bowers, Kris
Britell, Nicholas
Britten, Benjamin
Cage, John
Chen, Chelsea
Chin, Unsuk
Chopin, Frederic
Copland, Aaron
Corigliano, John
Daugherty, Michael
Debussy, Claude
des Prez, Josquin
D’Netto, Connor
Escalzo, Noelia
Figuroa Mañas, Adriana Isabel
Frank, Gabriela Lena
Gershwin, George
Glazunov, Alexander
Gubaudulina, Sofia
Guðnadóttir, Hildur
Hakim, Naji
Handel, George Frideric
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Henneman, Ig
Higdon, Jennifer
Holter, Julia
Hsu, Chaiyu
Joachim , Nathalie
Larsen, Libby
León, Tania
Lindberg, Marcus
Liszt, Franz
Mackey, John
Madsen, Pamela
Markowski, Michael
Mazzoli, Missy
Montgomery, Jessie
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muhly, Nico
Musgrave, Thea
Norman, Andrew
Nante, Alex
Negrón, Angélica
Nishimura, Yukiko
Ogonek, Elizabeth
Ojakangas, Celka Ilona
Orem, Philip
Ortiz, Gabriela
Pärt, Arvo
Puccini, Giacomoz
Ravel, Maurice
Riley, Terry
Rimsky-Korsakov
Revueltas, Silvestre
Rodriguez, Ivette Herrymans
Salieri, Antonio
Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Sarcina, Antonia
Sasaki, Miho
Shekhar, Nina
Shuying Li
Sibelius, Jean
Ssu-Uy Huang
Stravinsky, Igor
Stucky, Steven
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
Thorvaldsdottir, Anna
Ticheli, Frank
Tower, Joan
Valverde, Mari Esabel
Vaqueiras, Raimbaut de
Vivaldi, Antonio
Wagner, Richard
Walicki, Kenneth
Whitacre, Eric
Woolf, Luna Pearl
Xi, Wang
Yen, Ming-Hsiu
Yi, Chen
Z, Pamela
Zhao Lin
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe

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