Julian Livingston

Julian Livingston is an American composer and writer.

Livingston studied composition with Bernhard Heiden and Thomas Beversdorf , piano with Sydney Foster and Don Rand and conducting with Ernst Hoffman at Indiana University from 1950 to 1955 . In 1954, he composed the musical comedy Welcome to France with Robert Aichele .

From 1955 to 1957 Livingston served as an officer in the US Army in Korea. He then completed an electrical engineering degree from Purdue University . In the 1960s he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories on the development of data transmission via modem. In addition, he was busy composing and performing music on the computer. In the mid-1960s, he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn .

In the 1960s and 1970s Livingston composed numerous works for piano, voice, chamber music ensemble and orchestra. In 1976 he founded the Elysium Chorale , which he directed until 1984. The opera A Twist of Treason, based on the biography of Benedict Arnold , was commissioned by the Battleground Arts Center to mark the 200th anniversary of the American War of Independence and premiered in 1977 with Ralph Brown , Peggy Shippen and Robert Spencer in the leading roles. Another commissioned work was the musical Molly about the legendary heroine Molly Pitcher in 1983 on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Monmouth .

From 1982 to 1984 Livingston directed the Bell Laboratories Chorus . In 1985 the AT&T Company recognized him as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for his research in the field of data transmission . After his retirement (1988) he studied creative writing with Deborah Bushfield at Indiana University from 1994 to 1996 and published the novels The Anonymous North American Tour of Franz Liszt and Paganini, the Vampire Career .

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• Vox Novus - Julian Livingston
• Julian Livingston - Opera Composer, Novelist, & Engineer ( Memento from August 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive )