Nancy Van de Vate

In 1952, Van de Vate married Dwight Van de Vate Jr.[13] The couple had three children.[8] They later divorced. She later married Clyde A. Smyth,[9] who died of cancer in 1999.[14]

Van de Vate died on July 29, 2023, at age 92, at home in Vienna.[2][15][16]

Many of Van de Vate's works were recorded by her CD company Vienna Modern Masters (VMM). A CD of orchestral works was produced in 1990, named after Distant Worlds, and played by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Szymon Kawalla[20] Arnold Whittall reviewed the album for Gramophone; he summarized: "Her orchestral music undoubtedly makes its presence felt, especially by means of densely dissonant climaxes whose weight and seriousness are appropriate to works with such grandly evocative titles", adding that it "lacks that distinctiveness and magnetism".[21]

Her Chernobyl and her Violin Concerto was recorded by the same performers on a 1988 CD of mainly works by Penderecki, titled after Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima.[22] Her Krakow Concerto became the title of a 1991 album by the same performers, including also her Katyn, Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, and Penderecki's Dies irae.[23]

Her vocal composition Cocaine Lil was recorded by Dietburg Spohr and her ensemble belcanto, as the final track of a 1994 CD named after Hanns Eisler's Woodburry-Liederbüchlein.[24]

• Hamlet[15] (2009) opera in five acts, after Shakespeare, recorded 2011, premiered by the University of Mississippi's Opera Theatre Group April 18, 2015
• Where the Cross Is Made (2003) opera in three acts, Libretto based on the play by Eugene O'Neill[15] Premiere: 2005
• Im Westen nichts Neues (2002) opera in three acts, libretto after the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, premiere: September 28, 2003, Theater Osnabrück,[4] directed by Thomas Münstermann[1]
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1998)[1] anti-war opera in three acts,[8] premiere 2003, New York City Opera[4]
• Nemo: Jenseits von Vulkania (1995)[9][1] opera in four acts, libretto: Allen Cortes and Van de Vate recorded by VMM[1]
• Der Herrscher und das Mädchen (1995)[9] children's opera, premiered in Vienna 1995[1]
• The Death of the Hired Man (Der Tod des Tagelöhners), (1958; rev. 1998) chamber opera, libretto: after Robert Frost,[17] premiered in German 1999[1]

• Suite for String Orchestra after Mechthild from Magdeburg (2000)[17]
• Adagio and Rondo for Violin and String Orchestra (1994)[17]
• Viola Concerto (1990)[17] 16'[19]
• Kraków Concerto for percussion and orchestra (1988)[17] 25',[19] recorded in 1991[25]
• Abschied von Chernobyl, recorded in 2011 by Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gottfried Rabl[25]
• Katyn (1989)[9] recorded in 1991[25]
• Chernobyl (1987)[8][15] written in response to the Chernobyl disaster, 13', premiered in Vienna by the Tonkünstler Orchestra,[19] recorded in 1988[25]
• Distant Worlds (1985)[9] 16'[19] premiered in Krakow in 1987,[9] recorded in 1990[25]
• Piece for Cello and Orchestra (1985), recorded in 1990[25]
• Violin Concerto No. 1 (1985) in three movements, 26'[19] dedicated to the composer's husband, Clyde A. Smyth, first performed in Kraków on June 20, 1987, by Janusz Mirynsky and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Szymon Kawalla,[7] and recorded by them in 1988[25]
• Journeys (1984)[10] 16'[19] recorded in 1990, and in 1991 by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carolann Martin[25]
• Concert piece for cello and small orchestra (1979)[1]
• Dark nebulae (1981)[9] 11', performed in Vienna at the Musikverein conducted by Carlos Kalmar, and by the Honolulu Symphony conducted by Donald Johannos,[19] recorded in 1990[25]
• Piano Concerto (1968, rev. 1994)[17]
• Variations for Chamber Orchestra (1958), premiered in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on March 13, 1963[9] by Mississippi Southern College Forum Orchestra, conducted by Vincent de Frank[7]
• Adagio (1957)[17] 6',[19] premiered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 18, 1958[9] by University of Alabama Forum Orchestra, conducted by Henry Sopkin[7]
• A Peacock Southeast Flew (Concerto for Pipa & Orchestra) (1997)[26]

• Cocaine Lil (1986) for 4–8 jazz singers with small percussion, recorded in 1994 by ensemble belcanto, conducted by Dietburg Spohr[25]
• A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum (1983) text: Margaret Atwood[1]

• String Quartet No. 2 (2005)[17]
• Piano Trio (1983)[17]
• String Trio (1974)[17]
• Viola Sonata (1964)[17]
• String Quartet No. 1 (1969)[17]

• Suite for Marimba (2000)[17]
• Teufelstanz (1988) for six percussionists[17]

• Music for Viola, Percussion and Piano (1976)[10]

• Cantata for Women's Voices (1979) texts: James Joyce, Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire, anon.[17]
• An American Essay (1972) for choir, piano and percussion, texts: Walt Whitman[17]
• The Pond (1970) for choir a cappella, text: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff,[17] premiered 1970[1]
• Make a Joyful Noise (1963) for chorus and piano (or organ), written under pseudonym William Huntley[17]
• Psalm 121 (1958)[17]

• Twelve Pieces for Piano "On One to Twelve Notes" (1986)[1] recorded in 2006 by Catherine Nardiello[25]
• Fantasy for Harpsichord (1982)[1]