Otto Luening (Composer)
Born: 15th June 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A
Died: 2nd September 1996, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music.
Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conductor and composer, and Emma (nee Jacobs), an amateur singer. When he was 12, his family moved to Munich, where he studied music at the State Academy of Music. At age 17, he moved to Switzerland and attended the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Zurich and University of Zurich, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach, and was also an actor and stage manager for James Joyce's English Players Company. He returned to the United States in 1924, and appeared mainly as a conductor of operas, in Chicago and the Eastman School of Music.His conducting premieres included Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, and his own Evangeline.
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- Ach! wer bringt die schönen Tage (1)
- Aria for Cello & Piano (1)
- At Christmas time (1)
- Cello Etudes (3) (1)
- Cello Sonata Composed in Two Dayturnes (1)
- Cello Sonata No. 1 (1)
- Fantasia No. 2 (1)
- Fantasy in Space (3)
- Farm Picture (1)
- Fifth Suite for Flute Solo (1)
- Four Songs (1)
- Fourth Suite for Flute Solo (1)
- Gargoyles (2)
- Good-night (1)
- Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept (1)
- I faint, I perish (1)
- In Weihnachtszeiten (1)
- Incantation (1)
- Infant Joy (1)
- Introduction & Allegro (1)
- Invention in Twelve Notes (1)
- Joyce Cycle (1)
- Kentucky Rondo (1)
- Lament for George (1)
- Little Vagabond (1)
- Locations and Times (1)
- Love's Secret (1)
- Low Speed (1)
- Moonflight (1)
- Noon Silence (1)
- Requiescat (1)
- Serenade (1)
- She walks in Beauty (1)
- Sonata for Cello Solo (1)
- Sonata for Piano in Memoriam Ferruccio Busoni (2)
- Sonata for Trombone and Piano (1)
- Sonata III for Solo Violin (1)
- Song Without Words (2)
- Songs of Emily Dickinson (1)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1)
- Suite (2)
- Suite for Cello & Piano (1)
- Symphonic Fantasia (1)
- Third Short Sonata for Flute & Piano (2)
- Third Suite for Flute Solo (1)
- Transience (1)
- Trio for Flute, Cello, & Piano (1)
- Trio No.1 (1)
- Variations on Bach’s Chorale Prelude 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier' (1)
- Venilia (1)
- Visor'd (1)
- Wake the serpent not (1)
- Young Love (1)