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First Name

 Lou

Middle Name

 

Last Name

 Harrison

Birth Year

 1917

Death Year

 2003

Biography

 Born in Portland in 1917, the American composer Lou Harrison was a pupil and close friend of Henry Cowell (1934-35), studied under Schoenberg in Los Angeles, wrote under Virgil Thomson in New York, collaborated with John Cage in San Francisco during World War II, and profited from a close study of the work of Charles Ives. He is particularly known for his percussion music, his experiments in intonation, and his synthesis of East and West in his music. (Source: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition)