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Young, La Monte

LC control no.n 82020023
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationML410.Y74 Biography
Personal name headingYoung, La Monte
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Variant(s)Young, LaMonte
See alsoCorporate body: Dream Syndicate (Musical group : La Monte Young)
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LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1935-10-14
Place of birthBern (Idaho)
Field of activityComposition (Music) Piano music Minimal music
AffiliationJohn Marshall High School (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles City College
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley
Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997)
Profession or occupationComposers Pianists
Found inAn anthology, 1963.
American minimal music, 1983: t.p. (La Monte Young) p. 19 (b. 10/14/35)
Jon Gibson in good company, p1992: container (LaMonte Young)
Wikipedia, August 29, 2018: (La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist generally recognized as the first minimalist composer; born in a log cabin in Bern, Idaho; graduated from John Marshall High School and studied at Los Angeles City College; undertook further studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received a BA in 1958, then at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1958 to 1960. In 1959 he attended the summer courses at the Darmstadt School under Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1960 relocated to New York in order to study electronic music with Richard Maxfield at the New School for Social Research)
Associated languageeng