ANTHEIL, George
(1900–1959)
ANTHEIL, George (8 July 1900–12 February 1959). Residing in Europe in the middle 1920s, Antheil became the epitome of the outrageous avant-garde American composer, producing piano pieces with such aggressive titles as Sonata Sauvage, Mechanisms, and Airplane Sonata. Returning to America for a one-person Carnegie Hall concert in 1927, he composed a Ballet mécanique (having already produced a score for a Ferdinand Léger film of the same title) with airplane propellers, several pianos, and many…