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Louis Horst, born Jan. 12, 1884, Kansas City, Mo., U.S. died Jan. 23, 1964, New York City. U.S., composer and pianist, was the musical director for the Denishawn company (1916 to 1925) before working as musical director and dance composition teacher for Martha Grahams school and dance company (1926 to 1948). Apart from being a personal friend and mentor to Graham, Horst worked and wrote scores for many other choreographers including:
Horst composed scores for the Denishawn company: Japanese Spear Dance (1919).
Horst composed several of Graham's early group works: Primitive Mysteries (1931), Celebration (1934), Frontier (1935), and El Penitente (1940).
For Anna Sokolow Horst composed Noah(1935).
Horst composed severall movie scores.
Horst founded and edited Dance Observer Journal (1933-1964).
Horst taught art of choreography at Neighborhood Playhouse School of the theater (1928-1964), Bennington College (1934-1945), Mills College, Connecticut College (1948–1963) Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and The Juilliard School (1951-1964).
Horst lectured often on: "Dance Composition", "Music Composition for Dance", "Modern Dance and its Relation to the other Modern Arts".
Horst helped to define the principles of modern dance choreographic technique most notably matching the choreography to the pre existing musical structure and the use of contemporary music for dance scores.
Horst wrote and published two books: "Pre-classic Dance Forms"'(1937), and "Modern Dance Forms"(1960).
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