Lejaren Hiller
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- Satan's Lash
- Bait for Men
- Festival of the Dead
- Fifth Gate
- Land of Limping Law
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Lejaren Hiller (b. February 23, 1924, New York City, d. January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) was an American composer who founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson. This was his fourth string quartet. He originally trained as a chemist, and worked as a research chemist for DuPont in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1947 to 1952. <a href=
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Hiller
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Buffalo
- Father
- Lejaren Hiller
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- University at Buffalo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1924-02-23
- date of death
- 1994-01-26
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
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