Wallingford Riegger

Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961) was an American composer, born in Albany, Georgia. He studied at the Institute of Musical Art in New York, the forerunner of the Juilliard School, and then in Berlin, and worked as a conductor in Germany until the United States entered the First World War in 1917. Back in New York he became an organiser and advocate for new American music alongside Charles Ives and Henry Cowell, and he was among the first American composers to use twelve-note technique, which he handled freely. He is known for his orchestral works and for the scores he wrote for modern dance.