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Princeton University. Lawrence University.
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Fred Lerdahl
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Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor of al 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." He has written many orchestral and chamber works, three of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for: Time after Time in 2001, String Quartet Number.
Career
3 in 2010, and Arches in 2011. Lerdahl studied with James Ming at Lawrence University, where he earned his Bachelor of Music in 1965, and with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, Roger Sessions, and Earl Kim at Princeton University, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts in 1967. He then studied with Wolfgang Fortner at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1968-1969, on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Lerdahl was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lawrence University in 1999, and previously taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Lerdahl"s maternal uncle was the noted astronomer Albert Whitford. Notable students of Fred Lerdahl include composers R. Luke DuBois, Jason Freeman, Mark Gustavson, Huck Hodge, Arthur Kampela, Paul Phillips, and Dalit Warshaw.
Achievements
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1966, Koussevitzky Composition Prize 1967, MacDowell Colony Fellowship 1971, 1988 Composer Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1974, Guggenheim Fellowship (declined Rome Prize in favour of Guggenheim) 1977, Naumburg Recording Award 1982, Martha Baird Rockefeller Recording Award 1991, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Membership
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Guggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize Pulitzer Prize for ; Rome Prize; Composer Award 1966, Koussevitzky Composition Prize 1967, MacDowell Colony Fellowship 1971, 1988 Composer Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1974, Guggenheim Fellowship (declined Rome Prize in favour of Guggenheim) 1977, Naumburg Recording Award 1982, Martha Baird Rockefeller Recording Award 1991, National Endowment for the Humanities FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize Pulitzer Prize for ; Rome Prize; Composer Award 1966, Koussevitzky Composition Prize 1967, MacDowell Colony Fellowship 1971, 1988 Composer Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1974, Guggenheim Fellowship (declined Rome Prize in favour of Guggenheim) 1977, Naumburg Recording Award 1982, Martha Baird Rockefeller Recording Award 1991, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship