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David Maslanka
American composer.
Born August 30th, 1943 in New Bedford.
Died August 6th, 2017 at 73 years old in Missoula (colorectal cancer).
Occupations
composer, music teacher, musicologist, university teacher
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks