James Tenney
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- United States
- Active from
- 1934-08-10
- Active to
- 2006-08-24
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James Tenney (August 10, 1934 - August 24, 2006) was an American composer and influential music theorist. Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College (B.A., 1958) and the University of Illinois (M.A., 1961). He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Chou Wen-chung, Lionel Nowak, Paul Boepple, Henry Brant, Carl Ruggles, Kenneth Gaburo, Lejaren Hiller, Jo
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- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Silver City
- Place of death
- Valencia
- Spouse
- Carolee Schneemann
- Occupation
- draftsperson
- Employer
- California Institute of the Arts
- Instrument
- piano
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- 1934-08-10
- date of death
- 2006-08-24
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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