René Leibowitz

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René Leibowitz was a Polish-born French composer, conductor, and influential music theorist who helped introduce and promote twelve-tone and serial techniques in postwar France.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
conductor
human
music theorist
teacher
activeIn 20th-century music
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfBirth Poland
countryOfCitizenship France
Poland
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1913-02-17
dateOfDeath 1972-08-29
educatedAt Schola Cantorum de Paris
ethnicGroup Jews
surface form: Jewish people
familyName Leibowitz
fieldOfWork composition
music theory
orchestral conducting
genre classical music
contemporary classical music
serial music
givenName René
influenced Jean Barraqué
Pierre Boulez
Serge Nigg
postwar French serial composers
influencedBy Alban Berg
Anton Webern
Arnold Schoenberg
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
French
German
Polish
movement serialism
twelve-tone technique
notableFor promoting serialism in postwar Europe
promoting twelve-tone technique in France
notableWork Introduction à la musique de douze sons
Le compositeur et son double
L’art du contrepoint
Schoenberg et son école
Traité de la forme musicale
recordings of Beethoven symphonies
recordings of Berg’s orchestral works
recordings of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
recordings of Liszt’s symphonic poems
recordings of Ravel’s orchestral works
recordings of Schoenberg’s orchestral works
recordings of Wagner orchestral excerpts
recordings of Webern’s orchestral works
occupation composer
music theorist
orchestra conductor
placeOfBirth Warsaw
placeOfDeath Paris
residence Paris
sexOrGender male
studentOf Anton Webern
Arnold Schoenberg
Hermann Scherchen

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Pierre Boulez studiedUnder René Leibowitz