Conlon Nancarrow
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 27 years ago |
Date of birth | October 27,1912 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Texarkana |
Arkansas | |
United States | |
Date of died | August 10,1997 |
Died | Mexico City |
Mexico | |
Genres | 20th/21st Century |
Albums | Studies for Player Piano |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Education | Cincinnati Conservatory of Music |
Movies/Shows | Trimpin: The Sound of Invention |
Nationality | American |
Mexican | |
Skos genre | Classical |
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ID | 716721 |
Conlon Nancarrow Life story
Samuel Conlon Nancarrow was an American-Mexican composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical instruments, realizing their potential to play far beyond human performance ability.