At 14, I started studying music: harmony, composition and piano.
Born in Vienna on Feb. 9, 1908, he studied at Music Academy in Vienna, working on harmony, composition and piano with Franz Schmidt, the composer, and conducting with Robert Heger.
An accomplished saxophonist and a guitar and banjo player, Tarkanian took numerous classes in the School's Music section, studying composition with Evan Ziporyn; harmony and composition with Elena Ruehr and the music of India with George Ruckert.
Petrassi then studied composition with Bustini and organ with Fernando Germani at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he received diplomas in composition (1932) and organ (1933) and later taught harmony and composition (1934 36).
In the summer months he went to France to study harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger.
He promptly began taking private lessons in harmony, counterpoint, composition and conducting.
Schuman studied harmony and composition at Malkin Conservatory, New York City, and then studied at Teachers College, Columbia University (B.S., 1935; M.A., 1937).
Stott studied Geraldo's orchestrations, particularly those written by Robert Farnon, and he took lessons in harmony and composition with Matyas Seiber and in conducting with Walter Goehr.
She wrote to Arnold Bennett, Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy for librettos from which her husband might compose an opera, and she invited Igor Stravinsky to the Riviera to instruct her husband in harmony and composition.
The prize is awarded every year to a graduate student in music at the University of California, Berkeley who has attained the highest excellence in his or her studies in harmony and composition.
