As a teacher of composition, he influenced everyone from the avant-gardist Edgard Varèse to the populist Kurt Weill.
Upon completion of Wozzeck, Berg, who had also become an outstanding teacher of composition, turned his attention to chamber music.
He was an outstanding teacher of composition who encouraged his pupils to undertake significant work of their own.
As a teacher of composition he probably exerted an influence on most of the composers of the generation that followed him.
As well as a wonderful pianist, Busoni was at the forefront of introducing contemporary music to Berlin and was also a great teacher of composition, numbering Weill among his pupils.
September 16, 1887 Paris, France October 22, 1979 Paris, France Nadia Boulanger, (born Sept. 16, 1887, Paris, France died Oct. 22, 1979, Paris), conductor, organist, and one of the most influential teachers of musical composition of the 20th century.
Thomson studied at Harvard University and later in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a noted teacher of musical composition.
Jeanne Lee, one of the great jazz singers in the avant-garde tradition and a teacher of singing, composition and movement, died on Wednesday in Tijuana, Mexico.
The awards, which acknowledge achievements in dance and performance art, are named for Bessie Schönberg, a teacher of dance composition who died in 1997.
The production includes a film featuring the musings of Martha Myers, 80, a noted teacher of dance composition, and a text by Coleman Hough that ponders how the lines of our lives form a complex social map.
