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Name: Henry Dixon Cowell
Birth Date: March 11, 1897
Death Date: December 10, 1965
Place of Birth: Menlo Park, California, United States
Place of Death: Shady, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer, teacher, author

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Biography of Henry Dixon Cowell
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Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) was an inventive and productive American composer, pianist, teacher, and author. Henry Cowell was born March 11, 1897, in Menlo Park, Calif. A precocious pianist and violinist, he began composing by the age of 8. He...


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Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early...


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Henry Cowell, Bohemian.(Book Review)
09/01/2003: 1,486 words, approx. 5 pages
By Michael Hicks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. [ix, 204 p. ISBN 0252027515. $29.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Henry Cowell (1897-1965) remains both one of the most renowned and enigmatic of American composers. His reputation as an avant-garde performer, inventor of extended...
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Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell, 1921-1964. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
03/01/2003: 1,392 words, approx. 5 pages
Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell, 1921-1964. Edited by Dick Higgins. New York: McPherson, 2002. [345 p. ISBN 0-929701-63-1. $35.] Music examples, discography, index. Henry Cowell: Selected Writings, compiled by Dick Higgins, gathers fifty-five diverse writings of American composer...
 


 

Henry Cowell

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