Fred Lerdahl

Fred Lerdahl

Genres: contemporary classical, gammarec, 2juma, musicologist

About Fred Lerdahl

Alfred Whitford Lerdahl (Fred Lerdahl) (born March 10, 1943, in Madison, Wisconsin) 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." He has written many orchestral and chamber works, two of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Time after Time in 2001 and String Quartet No. 3 in 2010.

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