James Tenney

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Born: 10 August 1934 — Silver City, NM — USA
Died: 24 August 2006 — Valencia, CA — USA
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In the 1960s James Tenney was a pioneer in electronic and computer-generated music, working in the Bell Telephone laboratories, but his later music is almost all for acoustic instruments.

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James Tenney studied at the Juilliard School, Bennington College and the University of Illinois. Among his teachers were Edgard Varèse, Harry Partch, Carl Ruggles and John Cage.

In the early 1970s Tenney was a teacher at the California Institute of the Arts. In 2000 he went back there to take the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition. Other places were he worked are: the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and York University in Toronto.

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(1950) Luigi Dallapiccola: Premiere of Il Prigioniero, in Florence, Italy.
(1961) Hans Werner Henze: Premiere of Elegie für Junge Liebende, in Schwetzingen, Germany.
(1989) Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Premiere of Sinfonia Tragica, in Munich, Germany.
(1992) Peter Wallin: First performances of "Duel", "Hang over and out!!!" and "-Apping Music Suite", in Esbjerg, Denmark.
(2007) Aharon Harlap: Premiere of viola concerto, in Budapest, Hungary.

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