Fred Lerdahl
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 82 |
| Date of birth | March 10,1943 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Madison |
| Wisconsin | |
| United States | |
| Genres | Classical |
| Albums | Donald Martino & Fred Lerdahl: String Quartets |
| Job | Professor |
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| Education | Princeton University |
| Lawrence University | |
| West High School | |
| Books | A Generative Theory of Tonal Music |
| Tonal Pitch Space | |
| Official site | fredlerdahl.com |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada |
| Nominations | Pulitzer Prize for Music |
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| ID | 460519 |
Fred Lerdahl Life story
Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on musical grammar and cognition, rhythmic theory, pitch space, and cognitive constraints on compositional systems.