Partner George Pitcher
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Princeton University (Ivy League), 110 West College, Princeton, NJ 08544
Columbia University (Ivy League), 116th St and Broadway, New York, NY 10027
417 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10025
200 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542
18 College Rd W, Princeton, NJ 08540
Cone Cemetery
Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Edward Toner Cone (May 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist.
Edward T. Cone and George Pitcher, a fellow Princeton professor, were companions for nearly 48 years, until Cone's death in 2004.
Cone was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He studied composition under Roger Sessions at Princeton University, receiving his bachelor's in 1939 (Latin salutatorian and the first Princeton student to submit a musical composition as his senior thesis). Cone and Milton Babbitt were the first to earn graduate degrees in musical composition from Princeton (MFA, 1942). He studied piano with Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Edward Steuermann. During the Second World War, Cone served first in the army (as a pianist) and later in the Office of Strategic Services. Beginning in 1946, he taught at Princeton. He was the co-editor of the journal Perspectives of New Music between 1965 and 1969. Cone, known for his contributions to music criticism and analysis, also composed a significant body of music. His scholarly work addressed musical form and aesthetics, particularly questions of rhythm and musical phrasing. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 87. Cone's students include Michael Dellaira, Hobart Earle, Alan Fletcher, Robert Greenberg, John Heiss, David Lewin, Gilbert Levine, Mathilde McKinney, Robert P. Morgan, Mario Pelusi, Malcolm Peyton, Harold Powers, Victor Rosenbaum, John Solum, Richard Aaker Trythall, Beth Wiemann, and Edgar Warren Williams. Cone was a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1][2]
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