B.Mus. in Composition, Oberlin College (1981)
M.Mus. and Ph.D. in Composition, Harvard University (1986)

Lawrence Cave lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1986 to 1994. He held the position of tutor at St. John's College, and was a choral director and lecturer for the Sante Fe Opera.

His last work, Goblin Market, to a text by Christina Rossetti, was premiered two weeks after his death by the Sante Fe Women's Ensemble.

Lawrence Cave died of AIDS in Oberlin, Ohio at the age of 36 on April 12, 1996.

WORKS:

Goblin Market
for: women's chorus (?)
date: ?
premiere: Santa Fe Women's Ensemble, Santa Fe, NM 4/26/96

Purgatory: A Chamber Opera in One Act After Yeats
date: 1986
note: Ph.D. thesis

Fantasy Sonata
for: C trumpet and piano
date: 1993 (?)
note: this piece was commissioned by Gary Malvern

Four Chorales
for: C trumpet and organ
date: 1995
note: four movements: Wedlock, Alle menschen mussen sterben, Old 100th, Maoz Zur; this piece was written as a wedding present for the June 1995 marriage of Gary Malvern and Lori Clark.

UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
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DISCOGRAPHY:
No professionally released recordings

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Obituary, Sante Fe New Mexican, April 15, 1996.

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