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George Perle

American composer, music theorist, and educator
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Born:
May 6, 1915, Bayonne, N.J., U.S.
Died:
Jan. 23, 2009, New York, N.Y. (aged 93)
Awards And Honors:
Pulitzer Prize
Subjects Of Study:
music theory
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George Perle (born May 6, 1915, Bayonne, N.J., U.S.—died Jan. 23, 2009, New York, N.Y.) was an American composer, music theorist, musicologist, and educator who expanded ways of working with all 12 notes of the Western chromatic scale, from both a music-compositional and an analytical perspective. Perle earned a B.A. (1938) in music from DePaul University, Chicago, and continued compositional studies with Austrian American composer Ernst Krenek, a prominent exponent of the 12-tone technique of musical composition. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Perle returned to his studies, completing a Ph.D. (1956) at New York University. ...(100 of 278 words)

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