Ernst Bacon

Person · Open Library

Born

1898

Died

1990

Works

20

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1898-05-26

Active to

1990-03-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

211

Total plays

1,518

Ernst Lecher Bacon (May 26, 1898 – March 16, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific author, Bacon composed over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony. Bacon was self-taught in composition, except for two years of study with Karl Weigl in Vienna, Austria. Experiencing the depression of post-war Europe first hand, he understood that the avant-garde movement reflected the pessimi

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,887x

2. Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range

   · 1968 · cited 13,427x

3. Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

   · 2015 · cited 11,858x

4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,699x

5. Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease

   · 2003 · cited 9,237x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ernst

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Place of death

Orinda

Occupation

conductor

Educated at

University of California, Berkeley

Employer

Eastman School of Music

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Student of

Ernest Bloch

Field of work

music education

Instrument

piano

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