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
- Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University
- Employment
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- New York
(1991 - )
- New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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