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George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 8 July 1900, 9 July 1900
- Died
- 12 February 1959
- Place of birth
- Trenton
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Antheil
- Spouse
- Böske Antheil
- Field of work
- composer, film score
- Occupation
- composer, pianist, film score composer, inventor
- Citizenship
- United States
- archives at
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Columbia University), Library of Congress
- birth name
- Georg Johann Carl Antheil
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- UbuWeb, Antheil, George, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers
- educated at
- Trenton Central High School
- influenced by
- Igor Stravinsky
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- notable work
- Tom Sawyer, Q2265816, Symphony No. 4, Secret communication system
- place of burial
- Riverview Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Films scored by George Antheil
- significant person
- Hedy Lamarr, Jean Cocteau, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Erik Satie, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray
- student
- Benjamin Lees
- student of
- Nadia Boulanger
- topic's main category
- Category:George Antheil
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