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Richard Teitelbaum, Avant-Garde Composer, Dead at 80

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Avant-garde composer and live electronic music pioneer Richard Teitelbaum has died, as NPR reports. According to his wife, classical pianist Hiroko Sakurazawa, he suffered a stroke.

He was 80 years old. Born in 1939, Teitelbaum began his career as a pianist and studied at Haverford College before attending Yale University for theory and composition.

During his time at Yale, he studied abroad in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship. It was there, in the 1960s, that he began playing alongside Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski in Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), one of the first groups to use synthesizers to process acoustic sounds.

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