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Ben Johnston
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American composer (1926–2019)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Swallow the Worm
- Legacy of Love
- Men of Steel
- Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
- New Light
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2019
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,040
- Total plays
- 78,058
Tags
contemporary classicalmicrotonalAvant-GardeClassicalchamber music
Ben Johnston (Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr., Macon, Georgia, USA, March 15, 1926 – July 21, 2019) was an American contemporary music composer using "just intonation" (system of tuning). He was called "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" by Philip Bush (1997) and "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" by John Rockwell (1990). Johnston taught composition and theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1951 to 1986, before retiring to No
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Johnston
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Macon
- Place of death
- Deerfield
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Mills College at Northeastern University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1926-03-15
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- date of death
- 2019-07-21
- name in native language
- Ben Johnston
- birth name
- Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr.
- cause of death
- disease
- Commons category
- Ben Johnston (composer)
- manner of death
- natural causes
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