Davidovsky, Mario, 1934-2019

LC control no.	n 85006013
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Davidovsky, Mario, 1934-2019 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	84349446
Associated country	Argentina United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.) Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Located	Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Birth date	1934-03-04
Death date	2019-08-23
Place of birth	Buenos Aires (Argentina) Médanos (Argentina) Médanos (Argentina)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Composition (Music) Art music Electronic music
Affiliation	Mannes School of Music Harvard University University of Michigan Columbia University Manhattan School of Music (New York, N.Y.) City University of New York. City College Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Profession or occupation	Composers Composition teachers (Music)
Found in	Tenth anniversary, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Studio [SR] 1977: label (Mario Davidovsky) notes (b. 1934 in Argentina) Grove music online, July 18, 2014 (Davidovsky, Mario; born Buenos Aires, March 4, 1934; American composer of Argentine birth) Wikipedia, July 2, 2019 (Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US; born in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; on the composition faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music) AllMusic website, July 2, 2019 (Mario Davidovsky is a leading American composer, particularly noted for compositions combining the live musical instruments with pre-taped electronic music. He came from a devout Jewish family in Buenos Aires; born March 4, 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; founded the Argentine Society of Young Composers; came to U.S. permanently in 1960, and began work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, becoming its assistant director in 1964; in 1964 he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, as an instructor at the University of Michigan and returned to Buenos Aires for a year of teaching at the Di Tella Institute. He has also taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, and City College of the City University of New York. In 1981 he returned to Columbia University, also becoming director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center) <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mario-davidovsky-mn0001851173> ArkivMusic website, July 2, 2019 (Mario Davidovsky; born: March 4, 1934; Buenos Aires, Argentina; since coming to the U.S., he has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, City University, CUNY, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan; in January 1994 he joined the music department at Harvard University; currently the Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University) <http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/Mario-Davidovsky/Composer/2756-1> Milken Archive of Jewish Music website, July 2, 2019 (Mario Davidovsky; born in Médanos, Buenos Aires province (Argentina); came permanently to the United States in 1960 and became a member of the first wave of younger composers to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, of which he was eventually appointed associate director (and much later, as a full professor at Columbia, its director; in addition to his work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and in connection with it, Davidovsky taught at Columbia in the late 1960s and 1970s. During that period he was also a visiting professor at several schools, including the University of Michigan, the Manhattan School of Music, and Yale University; and he served on the faculty of City College of New York. In 1981 he became the MacDowell Professor of Music at Columbia, and, in 1994, he assumed a professorship at Harvard--where he remained until his retirement from teaching) <https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/mario-davidovsky/> New Yorrk times, 30 Aug. 2019 (Mario Davidovsky; born Mar. 4, 1934 in Médanos [Argentina], died Friday [Aug. 23, 2019] in Manhattan [New York], aged 85; Pulitzer-Prize winning composer who opened new vistas in chamber music by pairing live acoustic instruments with electronics)