URI(s)
Fuller Name
- La Monte Thornton
Variants
- Young, LaMonte
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1935-10-14
Has Affiliation
- Organization: John Marshall High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Organization: Los Angeles City College
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1958
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1958
- Affiliation End: 1960
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1959
- Affiliation End: 1960
- Organization: Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1960
- Organization: New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997)
Birth Place
- Bern (Idaho)
Associated Locale
- New York (N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
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Sources
- found: An anthology, 1963.
- found: American minimal music, 1983:t.p. (La Monte Young) p. 19 (b. 10/14/35)
- found: Jon Gibson in good company, p1992:container (LaMonte Young)
- found: Wikipedia, August 29, 2018:(La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist generally recognized as the first minimalist composer; born in a log cabin in Bern, Idaho; graduated from John Marshall High School and studied at Los Angeles City College; undertook further studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received a BA in 1958, then at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1958 to 1960. In 1959 he attended the summer courses at the Darmstadt School under Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1960 relocated to New York in order to study electronic music with Richard Maxfield at the New School for Social Research)
LC Classification
- ML410.Y74
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Change Notes
- 1982-03-25: new
- 2018-09-11: revised
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