Discipline: Music Composition

Dane Rudhyar

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1950
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Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was an American author, modernist composer and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Dane Rudhyar worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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