Allen Sapp (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American composer
Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1922
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 04-Jan-1999
Profession: composer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Allen Sapp (composer)
- Allen Sapp (1922, Philadelphia – 1999, Cincinnati) was a composer of music for piano, voice, chamber and orchestral music. He studied at Harvard University primarily with Walter Piston and Irving Fine, and privately with Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland.
- He joined the Harvard music faculty in 1948.
- After a brief appointment at Wellesley College (1958–61) he was appointed Chair of the music department at the University of Buffalo (later, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo).
- While at Buffalo, Sapp presided over many significant projects promoting contemporary music and art, including the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts (with Lukas Foss), and helped build a significant music faculty including the Budapest String Quartet, musicologists Jeremy Noble and James McKinnon, and music librarians James B.
- Coover and Carol June Bradley.
- He also served as director of major national arts initiatives, including the American Council for the Arts in Education (1972–74), and Project Arts/Worth (1971–74).
- Sapp served as Provost of Florida State University (1975–78), and as Dean of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM) from 1978 to 1980.
- From 1980 through the mid-1990s Sapp remained on the faculty of CCM as "Professor of Music," teaching a wide range of courses from music analysis to the history of music theory, and various seminars on special topics.
- He also taught composition and musicianship in private sessions. Allen married Norma Bertolami, a concert pianist and sister of the concert violinist Viviane Bertolami Kirkwood.
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