David Lewin
David Benjamin Lewin (born July 2, 1933 in New York City , † May 5, 2003 ) was an American musicologist, music theorist, pianist and composer.
Lewin had piano lessons from Eduard Steuermann at the age of twelve . He studied mathematics at Harvard University until 1954 and then continued his musical training in Vienna with Josef Polnauer . At Princeton University , he studied music theory and composition with Roger Sessions , Milton Babbitt , Edward T. Cone and Earl Kim . After graduating with a master's degree in 1958, he returned to Harvard University as a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows . After teaching at the University of California, Berkeley , the State University of New York , Stony Brook University and Yale University , he held the Walter W. Baumburg Professorship for Music at Harvard University from 1988.
He composed piano and vocal works, music for chamber ensembles, chamber orchestras and large orchestras and was the first professional composer to create computer music at Bell Laboratories . He appeared as a solo pianist and piano accompanist, played a highly acclaimed performance of Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire in the 1966–67 season and, as director of the Lowell House Music Society, directed performances of operas by Georg Friedrich Handel , André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry and for two years Henry Purcells .
As a music theorist, Lewin dealt with the mathematical categorization of musical objects and the description of their relationships, replacing the previously common set theory with the transformational theory , which he found in his books Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations (1987) and Musical Form and Transformation ( 1993) represented. He has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Music Theory , the Perspectives of New Music , Music Perception and Nineteenth-Century Music and, together with his student Henry Klumpenhouwer, developed the Klumpenhouwer network , a system for connecting different sound classes .
Lewin was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Brahms Society , president from 1985 to 1988, and from 2000 a lifelong member of the Society for Music Theory . He has received honorary degrees from several universities, and Harvard University held a symposium on Schönberg's string quartets on his 65th birthday.
swell
- Harvard University Gazette, May 15, 2003: Composer, music theorist David Lewin dies at 69
- Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang: "Cool Math for Hot Music: A First Introduction to Mathematics for Music Theorists" , Springer 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-42937-3 , p. 29 ff
- Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang, Margaret O'Brien, Nathan Torunsky: "All About Music: The Complete Ontology: Realities, Semiotics, Communication, and Embodiment" , Springer 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-47334-5 , P. 132 ff
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewin, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lewin, David Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musicologist, music theorist, and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 2003 |