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American musician (1925–2015)

Musical artist

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015)^[1] was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.

Biography and works

Early years

Schuller was born in Queens, New York City,^[1] the son of German parents Elsie (Bernartz) and Arthur E. Schuller, a violinist with the New York Philharmonic.^[2] He studied at the Saint Thomas Choir School and became an accomplished French horn player and flute player.

At age 15, he was already playing horn professionally with the American Ballet Theatre (1943) followed by an appointment as principal hornist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1943–45), and then the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, where he stayed until 1959.^[3] During his youth, he attended the Precollege Division at the Manhattan School of Music, later going on to teach