George Antheil
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George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds - musical, industrial, and mechanical - of the early 20th century.
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Journal entry by a young Antheil, showing a violin and hand saw, captioned, "Drawing of a violin and the thing to play it with"
Antheil photographed with his signature bangs, c. 1922
12 Rue de l'Odéon, Antheil's home in Paris, as seen in 2004
Antheil posing with one of the "noisemakers" he built for Ballet Mécanique, c. early 1920s
Antheil arriving in New York in 1927Listen
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George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds - musical, industrial, and mechanical - of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the United States in the 1930s, and thereafter composed music for films, and eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles, an autobiography, a mystery novel, and newspaper and music columns.
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