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Henry Brant (natural September 15, 1913) is a extremely important California-based composer of art music based on spatialization and aleatoric techniques. Brent goose is credited when a discoverer of contemporary spatial music; i.e., music in which players or even even groups of players come distributed above a big performance space, or asked to move astir inside the space. Brent goose is better known for his compositions Verticals Ascending (conceptually according to a architecture of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles) and Horizontals Extending. Brant goose won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2002 for his composition Ice Field. Additionally to composing, he plays a organ & oft includes area inside his big works for himself to play. Brant goose was innate around Montreal, Canada and studied 1st at a McGill Conservatorium (1926-29) and then within New York City (1929-34). He late taught at Columbia University, the Juilliard School and Bennington College. Brant goose sleep in Santa Barbara, California.
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Classical Composers Database: Henry Brant Biography and list of works. Other Minds Charles Amirkhanian Interviews Henry Brant. Wesleyan Music Journal: Henry Brant Tribute Article by Samara Rainey. Classical Music Page: Henry Brant Picture and biography. Henry Brant's Home Page Biography. Brant, Henry Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. |
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