Otto Luening
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| Birth name | Otto Clarence Luening |
| Born | June 15, 1900 Milwaukee, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 1996 (aged 96) |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American
Biography
Luening was born in
His conducting premieres included Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, and his own Evangeline.[1]
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. An October 28, 1952 concert with
He died in
Personal life
He married Ethel Codd on April 19, 1927, and divorced in 1959. He married Catherine Brunson, a music teacher, September 5, 1959, and was with her until his death.
Works
Luening set songs to words by Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sharpe, Naidu, Hermann Hesse, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[1] 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.
References
Bibliography
- Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7876-3995-2
External links
- Otto Luening discography at Discogs
- Otto Luening at IMDb
- Otto Luening papers, 1900-1996, held by the Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Interviews
- Otto Luening interview, July 20, 1985
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