George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900-1959) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 58
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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Nadia Boulanger Taught George- Benjamin Lees Studied under George
Igor Stravinsky Influenced George
Humphrey Bogart George wrote In a Lonely Place (1950)
Marsha Hunt George wrote Born to the West (1937)
Charles Bickford George wrote The Plainsman and Not as a Stranger
Franklyn Farnum George wrote The Plainsman and Not as a Stranger
Jay Novello George wrote The Pride and the Passion (1957)
Frank Sinatra George wrote The Pride and the Passion (1957)
John Wayne George wrote The Fighting Kentuckian (1950)
Anthony Quinn George wrote The Plainsman and The Buccaneer
Thomas Mitchell George wrote Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Beulah Bondi George wrote Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Gilbert Roland George wrote We Were Strangers and Thunder Trail
Marie Windsor George wrote The Sniper (1952)
Charles Lane George wrote The Sniper and The Juggler
Ethel Clayton George wrote Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Gerald Mohr George wrote Sirocco and The Sniper
Hank Worden George wrote The Plainsman (1936)
Peter Brocco George wrote House by the River and Sirocco
Harry Woods George wrote The Plainsman and The Buccaneer
Argentina Brunetti George wrote Sirocco and We Were Strangers
Byron Foulger George wrote Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Nick Dennis George wrote Sirocco and Man in the Dark
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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 1927Awards
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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.
