Carlton Gamer
American composer and music theorist (1929–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carlton Edwin Wesley Gamer (February 13, 1929 – July 14, 2023) was an American composer and music theorist. Gamer composed more than seventy works in a variety of genres, including songs, music for dance, solo piano pieces, chamber music, choral works, orchestral works, and computer music. His compositional approach has been fundamentally shaped by his theoretical interests, the latter influenced by an interest in mathematics.[1]
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Born | (1929-02-13)February 13, 1929 Chicago, U.S. |
Died | August 14, 2023(2023-08-14) (aged 94) |
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He taught at Colorado College, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan; he studied at Northwestern University and Boston University and later privately with Roger Sessions.