David diamond felipe de borbon biography

Diamond spent 1938-39 in Paris on his Guggenheim Fellowship, returning to the U.S. at the start of the Second World War. These were lean years for Diamond, though an impressive number of awards and commissions during the 1940s somewhat relieved Diamond's struggle for daily needs.

He received a second Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome, a commission from Dimitri Mitropoulos (resulting in the popular Rounds for String Orchestra), a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation for his Symphony No.

4, and a National Academy of Arts and Letters grant "In recognition of his outstanding gift among the youngest generation of composers, and for the high quality of his achievement as demonstrated in orchestral works, chamber music, and songs."

Important works appearing during the 1940s include the Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1942), String Quartet No.2 (1943), Symphony No.

3 (1945), String Quartet No. 3 (1946, receiving the 1947 New York Music Critics