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Otto Luening 1900-1996) was an American composer.
Short Biography:
He studied in Zurich, and privately with Busoni. In 1949 he joined the staff at Columbia University, and in 1951 began a series of pioneering compositions for instruments and tape, some in partnership with Vladimir Ussachevsky (Incantation in 1952, Poem in Cycles, and Bells in 1954).
In 1959 he became co-director, with Babbitt and Ussachevsky, of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
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