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George Antheil
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George Antheil was an American composer, pianist, film score composer, and inventor. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1900, he studied under Nadia Boulanger and later taught Benjamin Lees. His professional output included works in the genres of opera and symphony, with notable compositions such as Symphony no. 4, The wish, and La Femme 100 têtes. He also created the Antheil musical supplement and contributed to the film score department.
Antheil received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the EFF Award. His archives are held at the Library of Congress, and he is recognized in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection. He died of myocardial infarction in New York City on February 12, 1959, from natural causes. His works are described by sources including UbuWeb and are associated with tags such as Avant-Garde and contemporary classical.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1900
- Died
- 1959
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Antheil musical supplement
- Symphony no. 4
- The wish
- Bohemian grove at night
- La Femme 100 têtes
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound · Trenton, New Jersey, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Antheil (/ˈæntaɪl/; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much…
Known for
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1900
- Active to
- 1959
Discography
- George Antheil: Ballet mécanique / Henry Brant: Signs & Alarms / Galaxy 2 (1954)1955
- The Pride and the Passion1957
- Ballet Mécanique / Toccata For Percussion / October Mountain / Sketch For Percussion1959
- Ballet Mécanique / A Jazz Symphony / Violin Sonatas no. 1 & 21977
- Ballet mécanique1992
- The Bad Boys!1994
- String Quartets1995
- Fighting the Waves1996
- Ballet Mécanique and Other Works for Player Pianos, Percussion, and Electronics2000
- Symphonies 1 & 62000
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13,163
- Total plays
- 86,122
Tags
George Carl Johann Antheil (1900–1959) was a U.S. composer and pianist. Born in Trenton New Jersey on July 8, 1900, Antheil’s best-known composition is Ballet Mécanique (1924). The “ballet” was about thirty minutes long, originally conceived as the musical accompaniment to the film of the same name by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger. Eventually the film makers and composers chose to let their creations evolve separately, although the film credits still included Antheil. <a href="https://www.las
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 63
- Cited by
- 63
Research areas
Most cited works
- Antheil and the treatise on harmony1924 · 29 cit
- Bad Boy of Music1990 · 23 cit
- Enfant terrible der Musik1960 · 3 cit
- To the moon1951 · 1 cit
- From Modern Music: Some Representative Passages1964 · 1 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,624x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,717x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 39,972x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,885x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 22,997x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1900–1959
- Nationality
- US, DE
- Role / Field
- Pianists, Pianist, Composers, Pianistes, Pianistas, Music
- Language
- eng, deu
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 27 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Key facts
- Born
- July 8, 1900 ( 1900-07-08 ) , Trenton, New Jersey , U.S.
- Died
- February 12, 1959 (1959-02-12) (aged 58), New York , New York , U.S.
- Occupations
- Composer pianist author inventor
- Spouse
- Boski Markus ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1925 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
George Johann Carl Antheil (/ˈæntaɪl/ AN-tyle; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the United States in the 1930s, and thereafter composed music for films, and eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles, an autobiography, a mystery novel, and newspaper and music columns.
In 1941, Antheil and the actress Hedy Lamarr developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronize frequency changes, referred to as frequency hopping, between the transmitter and receiver. It is one of the spread spectrum techniques that became widely used in modern telecommunications. This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
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