biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. After composition studies at Juilliard, he went to Paris in 1964 to study with Nadia Boulanger, and later spent time in India studying the culture and traditions. Back in New York in the late 1960s, he organized a group to play his stripped-down, relentlessly repetitive music that was dubbed (along with that of Steve Reich and others) ‘minimalist’. With works such as his opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) he gained a large following, many from the ranks of rock fans. Later works include the multimedia opera Monsters of Grace (1998), and the film scores Kundun (1998) and The Hours (2002, Oscar nomination; BAFTA). |
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