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Otto Luening (Otto Clarence Luening) was born on 15 June, 1900 in Milwaukee, U.S., is a German-American composer and conductor (1900–1996). Discover Otto Luening'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 96 years old?
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Otto Clarence Luening |
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Composer, conductor |
| Age |
96 years old |
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Gemini |
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15 June, 1900 |
| Birthday |
15 June |
| Birthplace |
Milwaukee, U.S. |
| Date of death |
2 September, 1996 |
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Otto Luening Height, Weight & Measurements
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Otto Luening Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor.
He was 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 (nee Jacobs), 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 Zürich 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.
His conducting premieres included Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, and his own Evangeline.
Luening's tape music, including A Poem in Cycles & Bells, Gargoyles for Violin & Synthesized Sound, and Sounds of New Music demonstrated the early potential of synthesizers and special editing techniques for electronic music.
He married Ethel Codd on April 19, 1927, and divorced in 1959.
An October 28, 1952 concert with Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City introduced Fantasy in Space, flute recordings manipulated on magnetic tape, and led to an appearance on The Today Show with Dave Garroway.
He also co-founded Composers Recordings, Inc. in 1954, with Douglas Moore and Oliver Daniel.
Luening was co-founder, along with Ussachevsky, of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1958.
He married Catherine Brunson, a music teacher, September 5, 1959, and was with her until his death.
A selection of those recorded include "She walks in Beauty", "Farm Picture", "Little Vagabond", "Young Love", "Wake the serpent not", "Requiescat", "Venilia", "Locations and Times", "Noon Silence", "Visor'd", "Infant Joy", "Good-night", "I faint, I perish", "Transience", "At Christmas time/In Weihnachtszeiten", "Ach! wer bringt die schönen Tage", Songs of Emily Dickinson, "Love's Secret", "Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept", and a Joyce Cycle.
He died in New York City in 1996.
His notable students include Chou Wen-chung, Charles Wuorinen, Joan Tower, John Corigliano, Harvey Sollberger, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Dave Soldier, Sol Berkowitz, Elliott Schwartz, Bernard Garfield, Norma Wendelburg, and Karl Korte.
