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Francis Thorne was born on 23 June, 1922, is an American composer. Discover Francis Thorne's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?
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Francis Thorne Net Worth
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Francis Thorne (June 23, 1922 – March 7, 2017) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and grandson of the writer Gustav Kobbé.
Francis Burritt Thorne, Jr. was born in Bay Shore, New York.
His father was a ragtime pianist and his grandfather, Gustav Kobbé, author of The Complete Opera Book, was a musical critic, particularly of the Wagnerian canon.
Thorne was a student of Paul Hindemith at Yale University, before entering the U.S. Navy in 1942 where he served during World War II.
After the war, he pursued a career on Wall Street and later, as a jazz pianist, after Duke Ellington heard him play the piano, and arranged an engagement for him at a New York jazz club.
Francis Thorne married Ann Chauncey Cobb on December 9, 1942.
The Francis Thorne Papers (1956–2004) are held by the New York Public Library.
From 1959 to 1961, he studied composition in Florence, Italy with David Diamond, who encouraged Thorne to incorporate his jazz sensitivities into his symphonic compositions.
In December 1961, Thorne's first opera, Fortuna, premiered in New York City.
In 1964 Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered his Elegy for Orchestra.
He served as director of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and the Thorne Music Foundation from 1965–1974, organizations which commission new works by young composers.
In 1968, he was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
He spent much of his career championing the works of emerging composers.
He was also one of the first classical composers to write for the electric guitar and electric bass guitar (Sonar plexus, 1968; Liebesrock, 1968–69).
A discussion of his works appears in R. Tomaro: Contemporary Compositional Techniques for the Electric Guitar in United States Concert Music.
In 1975, he founded the American Composers Orchestra with Dennis Russell Davies.
The orchestra focuses on performing new compositions by American composers.
Thorne died at Geer Nursing and Rehab in Canaan, Connecticut on March 7, 2017, aged 94.
He was survived by his three daughters, four grandsons, five great-grandchildren, and a brother.
Many of his more than 100 compositions are characterized by a distinct jazz flavor.
