Karl Richard Korte (June 23, 1928 – March 27, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
He was born in Ossining, New York, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended the Juilliard School, where he studied with Peter Mennin, William Bergsma, and Vincent Persichetti. He later studied composition with Otto Luening, Goffredo Petrassi, and Aaron Copland.
Korte taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1971 to 1997 and held the rank of emeritus professor. From 1997 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
He received many national and international awards for his work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1959 and 1970), Fulbright Awards to Italy and to New Zealand, and a Gold Medal from the Belgian Government in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
He died in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
1957 – Fantasy for violin and piano
1964 – Songs of Innocence (Blake), for women's voices and piano
1967 – Matrix – 7 for woodwind quintet, piano and percussion. Written for the New York Woodwind Quintet
1968 – Aspects of Love, for SATB and piano
1968 – Sappho Says, for mezzo-soprano soloist with women's chorus, flute, and piano
1969 – Carols New Fashioned, for SATB and piano (optional guitar or harp)
1971 – Remembrances for flute and synthesized processed sound
1973 – Pale is This Good Prince (An Oratorio in memory of Jean Casadesus), for chorus, soprano, two pianos, percussion, and narrator
1982 – Music for a New Easter, for SATB chorus and brass or keyboard
1989 – Three Psalm Settings, for a cappella chorus
2000 – Viola Redux, Viola Dance for viola and piano (revised 2006)
2001 – Four Songs of Experience (Blake), for women's voices, SSA, and piano
2001 – Holy Thursday (Blake), for SATB and piano