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Date of Birth
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10-March-1943
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Place of Birth
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Madison
(United States of America, Wisconsin, Area code 608)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Alfred Whitford Lerdahl
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Profession
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Professor, Composer, Music Theorist, Author, Writer
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Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar[s]." He has written many orchestral and chamber works, three of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Time after Time in 2001, String Quartet No. 3 in 2010, and Arches in 2011.
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