Otto Luening
American composer
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- Bachelors Music Columbia University
- Masters Music Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music. Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conductor and composer, and Emma , an amateur singer. When he was 12, his family moved to Munich, where he studied music at the State Academy of Music. At age 17, he moved to Switzerland and attended the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Zurich and University of Zurich, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach, and was also an actor and stage manager for James Joyce's English Players Company. He returned to the United States in 1924, and appeared mainly as a conductor of operas, in Chicago and the Eastman School of Music.
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- The Odyssey of an American Composer: The Autobiography of Otto Luening (1983) (9)
- An Unfinished History of Electronic Music (1968) (8)
- OHM : the early gurus of electronic music : 1948-1980 (2000) (7)
- Some Random Remarks about Electronic Music (1964) (7)
- Conversations with American Composers (1986) (5)
- Symphony in Three Movements for Orchestra (1946) (3)
- Here the frailest leaves of me (1944) (3)
- Fantasy in Space (2)
- Making Music Your Own (2000) (2)
- Varèse and the Schola Cantorum, Busoni and New York (2004) (1)
- The Art Series (1938) (1)
- Letter from Otto Luening to Karl Korte (1979) (0)
- The bells of Bellagio : 2 or 3 players at 1, 2 or 3 pianos (1973) (0)
- Invention in twelve tones (0)
- Trio, flute, violoncello, piano (1973) (0)
- The NFA 20th-anniversary anthology of American flute music (1993) (0)
- Lyric scene : flute and strings (1958) (0)
- Two inventions : piano solo (1943) (0)
- Coral scuttle blues (for two pianos) (1944) (0)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1927) (1980) (0)
- Art-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics (1938) (0)
- A farm picture (1944) (0)
- Relationship of New Sound Materials to Compositional Techniques in Music (1957) (0)
- Conversation with Otto Luening (1971) (0)
- Four Compositions for Violin Solo@@@Sonata III for Violin Solo (1979) (0)
- 1952 Electronic Tape Music; The First Compositions (1978) (0)
- Fuguing tune : for five wind instruments : flute, oboe, clarinet in B♭, horn in F, bassoon (1944) (0)
- Music Materials and the Public Library; A Report to the Director of the Public Library Inquiry (1949) (0)
- Coal scuttle blues (1944) (0)
- Short fantasy : for violin and horn (1971) (0)
- String quartet no. 2 (1976) (0)
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