“When they called her up to tell her she would get the award her first words were, Hedy Lamarr being Hedy Lamarr,”
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George Antheil
George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the United States in the 1930s, and thereafter composed music for films, and eventually, television. As a result of this wo…
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science · American composer and inventor (1900–1959) · composer · pianist · film score composer · inventor · also George Antheil, Antheil
Born 8 July 1900 · Died 12 February 1959 · Q137739
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If they try to jam one particular frequency, it might hit that frequency on one of its hops, but it would only be there for a fraction of a second.
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2026· 5 entries
“If they try to jam one particular frequency, it might hit that frequency on one of its hops, but it would only be there for a fraction of a second.”
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“Within a year, with the appearance of her in the film Algiers opposite Charles Boyer, she was a superstar.”
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“Her idea of a good evening was a quiet dinner party with some intelligent friends where they could discuss ideas — which sounds so un-Hollywood, but Hedy had to find something else to do to occupy her time.”
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“Attendants, will you please close and lock the doors?”
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2023· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil Invention Papers
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Released album “Violin Sonatas nos. 1–4”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “A French Connection: Chausson, Debussy, Franck”.
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Released album “Le monde selon George Antheil”.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “American Pioneers”.
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Released album “Modern Times Edition”.
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2019· 5 entries
Released album “Serenades 1 & 2 / The Golden Bird / Dreams”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 1 “Zingareska” / Suite from “Capital of the World” / McKonkey’s Ferry / Nocturne in Skyrockets / The Golden Bird”.
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Released album “Violin Sonatas (Complete Violin Music Vol. 1)”.
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Released album “Dementia aka Daughter of Horror”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 3 "American" / Symphony no. 6 "After Delacroix" / Spectre of the Rose Waltz / Archipelago / Hot-Time Dance”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Piano Music, Volume One: Late Works, 1939-55”.
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Modern Times”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 4 "1942" / Symphony no. 5 "Joyous" / Over the Plains”.
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Bad Boy of Music”.
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2015· 2 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: George Antheil - bad boy composer
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Bad boy of music: the rise and fall of George Antheil
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Antheil Plays Antheil: The Rare SPA Recordings & Private Audio Documents”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Antheil: The Pride and the Passion / Bernstein: Kings Go Forth”.
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Released album “The Brothers”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “La Femme 100 têtes”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Four American Quartets”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2 / A Jazz Symphony / Jazz Sonata”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “The Complete Works for String Quartet”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Symphony no 3 "American" / Tom Sawyer / Hot-Time Dance”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Piano Concertos of the 1920s, Volume 2”.
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Released album “The Lost Sonatas”.
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Moviefone: Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique (2003) - Where to Watch
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Piano Concertos of the '20s”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Piano Music”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Symphonies 4 & 5”.
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Released album “Symphonies 1 & 6”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 4 / Symphony no. 6 / McKonkey's Ferry”.
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Released album “Ballet Mécanique and Other Works for Player Pianos, Percussion, and Electronics”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Music at the Bauhaus”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Piano Pictures”.
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An Ottawa wireless technology developer, Wi-LAN, acquired a 49% claim to the long expired patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded EFF Award (1997).
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Fighting the Waves”.
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Released album “Antheil: Symphony No. 4 "1942" / Copland: Statements for Orchestra”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “String Quartets”.
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Released album “Futurpiano”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “The Bad Boys!”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Ballet mécanique”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Ballet Mécanique / A Jazz Symphony / Violin Sonatas no. 1 & 2”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Maxwell Davies: St. Thomas Wake / Antheil: Symphony no. 5”.
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1959· 3 entries
Died 1959-02-12.
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Released album “Ballet Mécanique / Toccata For Percussion / October Mountain / Sketch For Percussion”.
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In the New York City borough of Manhattan
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “The Pride and the Passion”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “George Antheil: Ballet mécanique / Henry Brant: Signs & Alarms / Galaxy 2 (1954)”.
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1954· 1 entry
Antheil created a modified version of the work for percussion, four pianos, and a recording of an airplane motor
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1953· 1 entry
To mixed reviews, while a visit to Spain in the 1950s influenced some of his last works, including the film score for The Pride and the Passion (1957)
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1948· 1 entry
Showed a self-described desire "to disassociate myself from the passé modern schools of the last half-century, and to create a music for myself and those around me which has no fear of developed melody, real development
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1945· 1 entry
Published a memoir called Bad Boy of Music, which became a bestseller
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1941· 1 entry
Antheil and the actress Hedy Lamarr developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronize frequency changes, referred to as frequency hopping, between the
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1940· 1 entry
When his plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea
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1936· 1 entry
Antheil travelled to Hollywood, where he became a sought-after film composer, writing more than 30 scores for such directors as Cecil B
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1933· 1 entry
The rise of the Nazi party made Antheil's avant garde music unwelcome in Germany, and in the depths of the Depression, he returned to the US and settled in New York City
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1932).
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1930· 2 entries
As Stacey Bishop, he wrote a murder mystery called Death in the Dark with a character based on Ezra Pound
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Premiered his first opera Transatlantic
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1927· 1 entry
Antheil rented New York's Carnegie Hall to present an entire concert devoted to his works, including the American debut of Ballet Mécanique in a scaled-down version
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1925· 1 entry
And 1926 did not include the film, which turned out to last around 19 minutes, only half as long as Antheil's score
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1924· 1 entry
Pound published Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, as part of his campaign to boost Antheil's reputation
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1922· 1 entry
At the age of 21, Antheil sailed for Europe to make his name as "a new ultra-modern pianist composer" and a "futurist terrible"
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1921· 1 entry
Wrote his first in a series of technology-based works, the solo piano Second Sonata, "The Airplane"
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1919· 1 entry
Began to work with the more progressive Ernest Bloch in New York
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1916· 1 entry
Traveled regularly to Philadelphia to study under Constantine von Sternberg, a former pupil of Franz Liszt
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-07-08.
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