Background
Otto Luening was born on June 15, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conductor and composer, and Emma (nee Jacobs), an amateur singer. His family moved to Munich, Germany when he was twelve years old.
(Discusses the origins and basic principles of electronic ...)
Discusses the origins and basic principles of electronic music and the creative potentials of the tape studio, voltage-controlled synthesizer, and live performance
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1975
composer conductor educator flutist
Otto Luening was born on June 15, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conductor and composer, and Emma (nee Jacobs), an amateur singer. His family moved to Munich, Germany when he was twelve years old.
When Otto was 12, his family moved to Munich, where he studied music at the State Academy of Music. At age 17, he moved to Switzerland and attended the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Zurich and University of Zurich, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach.
Otto was an actor and stage manager for James Joyce's English Players Company. He returned to the United States in 1924, and appeared mainly as a conductor of operas, in Chicago and the Eastman School of Music. Otto's conducting premieres included Virgil Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium", and his own "Evangeline." Luening's "Tape Music", including "A Poem in Cycles & Bells", "Gargoyles for Violin & Synthesized Sound", and "Sounds of New Music" demonstrated the early potential of synthesizers and special editing techniques for electronic music. An October 28, 1952 concert with Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City introduced "Fantasy in Space", flute recordings manipulated on magnetic tape, and led to an appearance on The Today Show with Dave Garroway. Luening was co-founder, along with Ussachevsky, of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1958. He also co-founded Composers Recordings, Inc. in 1954, with Douglas Moore and Oliver Daniel.
(Discusses the origins and basic principles of electronic ...)
1975
Otto married Ethel Codd, on April 19, 1927, and divorced in 1959. He married Catherine Brunson, a music teacher, September 5, 1959, and was with her until his death.