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Otto Luening
Contains tributes from colleagues, friends and students; excerpts from Luening's letters, lectures and articles; and a brief biography.
Otto Luening
This bio-bibliography offers a comprehensive look at the life and career of Otto Luening, the contemporary American composer, educator, conductor, and flutist. The work offers a brief biographical study of Luening's life; a list of works and performances arranged in chronological order and complete to 1986; a discography of both commercially produced and privately released recordings; and a pair of annotated bibliographies that cite writings by Luening as well as the numerous articles written about him. A set of appendixes catalog Luening's compositions alphabetically and according to genre.
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The Odyssey of an American Composer
Born in Milwaukee in 1900, Otto Luening grew up in the rich musical culture of German immigrants. At the age of five he wrote his first piece of music - a "very modern" waltz. When his father, a conductor and conservatory teacher, heard it he said, "It must be discouraged, an artist's life is much too difficult in the United States." In 1912 the Luenings moved to Munich, where Otto studied flute at the Royal Academy. Soon after World War I began, Luening fled to Zurich, where he studied with the legendary Ferruccio Busoni and played in the Tonhalle Orchestra under such conductors as Richard Strauss. In Zurich he found a patron in Edith Rockefeller McCormick. He also acted in James Joyce's th...
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