Harry Partch
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 50 years ago |
Date of birth | June 24,1901 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Oakland |
California | |
United States | |
Date of died | September 3,1974 |
Died | Encinitas |
California | |
United States | |
Genres | 20th/21st Century |
Albums | The World of Harry Partch |
The Bewitched | |
Awards | Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Siblings | Virgil Partch |
Skos genre | Classical |
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ID | 714053 |
Harry Partch Life story
Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison.