Alex Meyer

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Alex Meyer is a young musician and composer. He also manages a website, oboe.ducky, which is a sheet music trade and forum site. Alex composes for a wide range of instruments, everything from the recorder to the theremin. His style is still developing, but his favorite styles are neo-classicism, romanticism, modern classical, and impressionistic. Alex plays the oboe and piano fluently, but also plays the clarinet and sings.

Personal Contact Information

My username at Young Composers is oboeducky at Young Composers, if you want to contact me through a private message. If you want to email me, please contact me at alex@oboeducky.com.

Active Oboe Repertoire

Concertos

• Bellini, Eb Major
• Mozart, C Major
• Lindh, G Major
• Albinoni, Op. 7, No. 6
• Albinoni, Op. 9, No. 2
• Bach, D Minor

Sonatas

• Mozart, F Major
• Meyer, D Major

Other Works

• Britten - Metamorphoses after Ovid

Compositions

His Style

Free form works written with an impressionistic or modern-classical feel. Composes pieces that can be described with one word, but hold many meanings.

Influences: Britten, Bach, Mozart, Barber, Barrett, various others.

Earlier Composed Pieces

Estimated time to compose per composition: from 2 weeks to 2 months
Average length per composition: 1-5 minutes

• Over 30 works for various ensembles
• A set of pieces after various composers

Note that these works were composed in the earilest stage of Alex's compositional career. They were merely experiments in composition, to gain skill and start developing a compositional style.

Completed Works

Estimated time to compose per work: 4 months to 2 years
Average Length per composition: 10-25 minutes
As these pieces were written throughout Alex's compositional career, they vary greatly in style and mood, and therefore cannot be easily categorized.

• Oboe Sonata No. 1 - 4
• Viola Sonata
• Trumpet Quartet
• Oboe Concerto
• Violin Concerto
• Etudes for Solo Oboe after Various Composers
• Six Excercises for Piano

• The Seasons
• The Months
• A Life (Conception, Birth, Growing Up, Midlife Crisis, Old Age, Death)
• Elements (Fire, Water, Wind, Earth)
• A Prayer
• Call in the Wilderness