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George Johann Carl Antheil ( / ˈæntaɪl /; 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.
Jul 4, 2024 · George Antheil was an American composer known for his ultramodern music in the 1920s. Antheil studied with Ernest Bloch in New York. In 1922 he went to Europe, gave piano recitals, and became prominent in the literary and artistic circles of the Parisian avant-garde.
Jun 9, 2008 · The American composer George Antheil, the Bad Boy of Music, as he titled his 1945 autobiography, is best known for a jackhammer of a piece he wrote in Paris in his mid-20s, “Ballet...
George Antheil (1900-1959) was an American composer—born in Trenton, New Jersey—who began his professional career in Europe, where he was friends with, among many others, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and Igor Stravinsky.
The bad boy of music was no other than the dashing American George Antheil (1900-1959). A child prodigy, he dropped out of school and left for Europe. In no time at all he rubbed shoulders with Ezra Pound and James Joyce, made friends with Gertrude Stein and Leopold Stokowski, and was looking to upstage Igor Stravinsky.
Jul 3, 2024 · A radical force in early twentieth-century music, George Antheil (1900--1959) captured the exhilaration and anxiety of the Machine Age through provocative compositions featuring industrial sounds, propulsive rhythms, and experimental instrumentation.
Born July 8, 1900 - Died Feb. 12, 1959. George Antheil, an avant-garde composer known for pieces such as Ballet Mécanique and Airplane Sonata, had numerous other interests in addition to composing.
George Johann Carl Antheil ( / ˈæntaɪl /; 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.
George Antheil (1900-1959) first gained fame and notoriety in the 1920s, when his harshly mechanistic compositions caused an uproar in the musical establishment.
In 1924, an American living in Paris named George Antheil composed a piece called Ballet mécanique. It called for three xylophones, four bass drums, a tamtam (gong), two pianos, a siren, three airplane propellors, seven electric bells, and 16 synchronized player pianos.
