GRUNDMAN Musical works[edit]

Chamber music

 Bagatelle (Bagatelles) (for four clarinets)

 Caprice for Clarinets (for four clarinets or clarinet choir)
 Concertante (for alto saxophone and piano; originally for alto saxophone and band)
 Conversation for Cornet (for cornet and piano)
 Flutation (for flute trio or flute choir)[7]
 Puppets (for two clarinets)
 Pat-a-Pan (Christmas carol for two flutes and snare drum) [8]
 Scherzo (for six clarinets)
 Three Medieval Sketches (Joust, Chapel, and Pagent) (for two horns in F)
 Tuba Rhapsody (for tuba and piano, arrangement of work for tuba and band)
 Waltz and Interlude (for clarinet, flute and piano)
 Works for unaccompanied bassoon, English horn, and flute[3]
 Zoo Illogical Voice (for winds, percussion, and piano)

He was born in Cleveland and graduated from Shaw High School in East Cleveland in

1930.[2] He then attended The Ohio State University, where he received a bachelor's degree
in Music Education in 1934. For a few years he taught instrumental music
in Ohio and Kentucky public schools, but returned to Ohio State in 1937, where he
taught orchestration, applied lessons in woodwind instruments, and conducted the band.
He received his MA degree in 1940.[1]
After finishing his degree he moved to New York. He then studied composition with Paul
Hindemith at the Berkshire Music Center, and served as a military musician in the United
States Coast Guard from 1942 to 1945.[3]
Among his many awards were an Honorary Membership in the Women Band Directors
International (1974),[4] the AWAPA award of the National Band Association (1982),
[5]
 the American Bandmasters Association’s Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation
(1983), the Sudler Order of Merit of the John Philip Sousa Foundation (1990), and the
American School Band Directors Association’s Goldman Award (1992). [1]
In addition to his musical accomplishments he co-authored the 1974 New York
Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.[3]
Grundman was gay and in a long-term relationship. After his death in 1996, Grundman's
partner survived him for another sixteen years.[3] His papers and manuscripts are located in
the Music and Dance Library at Ohio State.