Gunther Schuller

French horn, composition, conducting · 1925–2015 · New York

Horn player on Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool" (1949-1950), composer and educator, he coined the term "third stream" at Brandeis in 1957 for music uniting jazz and classical. President of the New England Conservatory, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

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Styles

• Third stream

Landmark tracks

• Transformation (Gunther Schuller) (1957)

Sources

• Source

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