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Perle, George, 1915-
The George Perle correspondence with Paul Lansky date fromJuly 1969 to October 1973. Perle's exchange with Lansky centers on his study of the twelve-tone method and his attempts to explore what he perceived as modal and tonal relationships within the framework of atonality.
The composer George Perle was born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne,N.J. After graduating from De Paul University in 1938, hereceived his Masters of Music at the American Conservatoryof Music in 1942 and his Ph.D in Musicology at New York University in 1956. Perle has taught composition at the University of Louisville, the University of California, Davis College and Queens College of the City University ofNew York, and held numerous visiting professorships in theory, composition, and music history. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1966 and 1974, a MacArthur fellowship in 1986, and the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in music for his Wind Quartet no. 4. Aside from his work as a composer and teacher, he is widely recognized as an authority on the Second Viennese School.
The composer Paul Lansky was born on June 18, 1944 in New York, N.Y. He studied the French horn and composition at Queens College and received his MFA (1969) and Ph.D (1973) from Princeton University. His earliest compositions were written for acoustic instruments, but computer-generated sounds took a progressively central role starting with his Mild und Leise, written in 1973. Hehas served on the faculty at Princeton since 1969 and was made a full Professor of Music in 1984. His works have been widely recorded and he has received numerous commissions. Honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1981) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1981, 1988).
Music Visualizations, Synchoric Orchestra dancing Schubert's Unfinished Symphony ... (1919). Dance Division.
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