Background
Edward Cone was born on the 4th of May, 1917 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States; the son of Julius Washington Cone and Laura Barbara (Weill) Cone.
1942
Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
Edward Cone was educated under Roger Sessions at Princeton University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1939 and later earned a master's degree in 1942.
(In this illuminating study, Edward T. Cone discusses the ...)
In this illuminating study, Edward T. Cone discusses the problem of how to achieve valid and effective musical performance. In three penetrating essays, he considers the nature of musical form, the aims of the performer and the means of achieving them, and the relation of musical style to performance.
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1968
Edward Cone was born on the 4th of May, 1917 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States; the son of Julius Washington Cone and Laura Barbara (Weill) Cone.
Edward Cone was educated under Roger Sessions at Princeton University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1939 and later earned a master's degree in 1942.
Cone was presented with an honorary doctorate from Princeton University in 2004 .
At the beginning of his career, Cone spent World War II in the U.S. Army's Office of Strategic Services. He returned to his alma mater after the war, as an instructor in 1947, a year later he was appointed assistant professor. By 1960 he had been named a full professor, and he remained at Princeton until his 1985 retirement. Cone's subjects being music theory, history and composition. He was also concurrently the Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 1979 to 1985.
A talented pianist, in addition to teaching Cone was well respected for his musical compositions which blended styles from a wide variety of sources. Cone's orchestral scores include an Elegy in 1953, Nocturne and Rondo for piano and string in 1955-57, a violin concerto in 1959 and a handful of other works. Among his chamber works are two string quartets in 1939-49, two violin sonatas in 1940 and in 1948, a piano quintet in 1960, a string sextet in 1966 and a piano quartet in 1983.
One of Cone’s earliest vocal works was a setting of Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" from 1945, he returned to that inspiration in 1978 to set 9 Lyrics from Tennyson's In Memoriam. He wrote surprisingly little for his own instrument, the piano: 21 Preludes in 1945, a sonata in 1946, Fantasy in 1950, Prelude, Passacaglia and Fugue in 1957, Prelude and Variations for piano duet in 1946 and a Fantasy in 1965 for two pianos.
Edward Cone garnered even more acclaim for his books about music, especially “Musical Form and Musical Performance” that was written in 1968 and “The Composer's Voice” in 1974. He was also the author of “Music: A View from Delft” in 1989 and editor of a number of other musicology books. Cone also edited a collection of the writings of his former teacher, Roger Sessions on Music in 1975, and with Benjamin Boretz co-edited an important series of publications: Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky in 1968, Perspectives on American Composers in 1971, Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory in 1972 and Perspectives on Notation and Performance in 1975. For six years, from 1966 to 1972 he edited the periodical Perspectives on New Music.
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1968The musicologist and composer Edward Cone was a member of the music faculty at Princeton University all his professional life.
Quotes from others about the person
"All things at once - a wonderful composer, inspired pianist and fabled lecturer". - Scott Burnham, head of department at Princeton University.