Ned Rorem Autographs

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept—and later published—numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France.
Born in Richmond, Indiana, Rorem found an early interest in music, studying with Margaret Bonds and Leo Sowerby. He developed a strong enthusiasm for French music and received mentorship from Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, among others. After two productive years in Morocco, Rorem was hosted by the arts patron Marie-Laure de Noailles in Paris, where he was influenced by the neoclassicist group Les Six, particularly Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. He returned to America in around 1957, establishing himself as a prominent composer and receiving regular commissions. For the American Bicentennial, he worked on seven different commissions concurrently, among which was Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976.
Much of Rorem's life was spent with his lifelong partner James Holmes, between his apartment in New York and house in Nantucket. From 1980 onwards he taught at the Curtis Institute. He wrote the large-scale song cycle Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997) to 36 texts by 24 writers, for the New York Festival of Song. It is considered by commentators and Rorem himself to be his magnum opus. Much of his later compositions were devoted to concertante and his final major work was the opera Our Town (2006).
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Traded items with a signature of Ned Rorem

The most expensive item with a signature of Ned Rorem (NED ROREM AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION INC 2 SIGNED LETTERS..RARE...) was sold in September 2011 for $249.99 while the cheapest item (NED ROREM, Composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED POSTCARD In-Person MINT!) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2015. The month with the most items sold (7) was February 2023 with an average selling price of $27.51 for an autographed item of Ned Rorem. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2023 with $135.54 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.99 was April 2019. In average, an autographed item from Ned Rorem is worth $27.76.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1967 The New York Diary of Ned Rorem Signed by The Author	$50.00
	1967 The New York Diary of Ned Rorem Signed by The Author	$50.00
	1967 The New York Diary of Ned Rorem Stated 1st printing Signed by Ned Rorem	$40.00
	1987 The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem Signed by Ned Rorem	$50.00
	1987 The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem Signed by Ned Rorem	$50.00
	Composer Ned Rorem Autographed Autobiography	$20.00
	Composer Ned Rorem Autographed Autobiography	$20.00
	Ned Rorem / Music and People / Signed First Edition / George Braziller,1968	$59.50
	Ned Rorem / Music and People / Signed First Edition / George Braziller,1968	$59.50
	Ned Rorem American Composer Autographed Letter to Symphony Manager 11/1/1965	$124.99
	Ned Rorem American Composer Autographed Letter to Symphony Manager 11/1/1965	$124.99
	Ned Rorem Pulitizer Prize Composer For Music 1976 Autographed Musical Quotation	$54.97
	Ned Rorem Pulitizer Prize Composer For Music 1976 Autographed Musical Quotation	$54.97
	NED ROREM ~ SIGNED ~ Nantucket Diary 1973-1985 ~ Composer, memoir, music	$30.00
	NED ROREM ~ SIGNED ~ Nantucket Diary 1973-1985 ~ Composer, memoir, music	$30.00