Fred Lerdahl

Composer

1943 –

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Who is Fred Lerdahl?

Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar[s]." He has written many orchestral and chamber works, three of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Time after Time in 2001, String Quartet No. 3 in 2010, and Arches in 2011.

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Born
Mar 10, 1943
Madison
Also known as
  • Alfred Whitford Lerdahl
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University
    Musical composition
    ( - 1967)
  • Lawrence University
Employment
  • Columbia University
Lived in
  • New York
    (1991 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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