Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938[1][2] - October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. Biography She was born in Kane, Pennsylvania,[1] to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A in 1964.[1] While there she studied composition with George Rochberg[1] and Karlheinz Stockhausen.