Cone, Edward Toner
(*1917)
Cone, Edward Toner. Greensboro, North Carolina, 4 May 1917 Cone studied at Princeton University (1935–39, 1941–42) where he was a pupil of Roger Sessions. At Columbia University (1939–41) he studied musicology with Paul Henry Lang. He studied piano with Edward Steuermann and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. In 1947 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. That same year, he joined the music faculty at Princeton University, first as an assistant professor, then in 1952 as an associate professor and in 1960…