Also known as Peter Talbot Westergaard
American composer (1931–2019)
Top works
via Open Library + Wikidata
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Tags
Biography: Peter Westergaard is the William Shubael Conant Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Princeton University. A composer and music theorist, he was a student of Milton Babbitt. He has composed numerous operas from Charivari (1953) to Alice and Wonderland (2006). He is also the author of "An Introduction to Tonal Theory (W.W. Norton, 1975). Amongst former pupils of Babbitt, Westergaard stands out for his contributions to serial theory, as well as for his compositions <a href="https://www.l
5 total works indexed
· 1999 · cited 85,117x
· 1987 · cited 42,254x
· 2010 · cited 30,752x
· 2019 · cited 23,882x
· 2010 · cited 23,328x
via Crossref · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).