biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926–2002)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA. In the 1950s he began to write highly influential avant-garde works in ‘open form’, giving performers wide choices, the scores sometimes being noteless diagrams. He was also an active teacher, professor of composition and composer-in-residence at the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore (1968–73), visiting composer, California Institute of the Arts (1973–83), and director, Fromm Music Foundation, Harvard University (1985–90). |
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