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In the 1930s Antheil's music grew more traditional, but at the same time he found difficulty making a living, and at various times he wrote film scores, conducted a lonely-hearts column, and wrote for '' Esquire Magazine ''. Among other pieces, he wrote a series of articles for Esquire on glandular-analysis (endocrinology was his hobby). Antheil was a good friend of writer Jack Woodford .

His autobiography, ''Bad Boy of Music'' (1945),was a popular success, and it remains a vivid and entertaining, however not always factual account of his experiences. In the last two decades of his life he was in demand as a composer of operas and film scores. Long after his death, his work in yet another field was belatedly recognized: he and Hedy Lamarr are credited with inventing the Frequency-hopping Spread Spectrum technique for signal transmission in 1942 . He died in 1959, in New York City leaving his wife, Boski and Son Peter Antheil, along with another son Chris Beaumont who struggles to be recognized by the Antheil estate and his half brother, Peter.


WRITTEN WORKS


  • ''Everyman His Own Detective: A study of glandular criminology'' (1937)

  • ''The Shape of the War to Come'' (1940)

  • ''Death In the Dark''

  • ''Bad Boy of Music'' (1945)



FILM SCORES


  • ''The Spectre Of The Rose''

  • ''Buccaneer, The'' (1938)

  • ''Pride and the Passion, The'' (1957)

  • ''20 Million Miles to Earth'' (1957) (uncredited)

  • ''Young Don't Cry, The'' (1957)

  • ''Werewolf, The'' (1956) (uncredited)

  • ''Juggler, The'' (1953)



OPERAS


  • ''The Brothers'' (1954)

  • ''Helen Retires'' (1930-31)

  • ''Venus in Africa'' (1954)

  • ''Volpone -- A Satire in Music''(1949-52)

  • ''The Wish (1954)''

  • ''Transatlantic''



IMPORTANT WORKS

  • '' Ballet Mécanique '' (1924; first version)

  • ''Airplane Sonata'' (1923)

  • ''Sonate Sauvage'' (1923)

  • ''Woman Sonata'' (1923)

  • ''La Femme 100 Tetes'' (1930s)

  • ''Collected Violin Sonatas'' (1923, 1940s)

  • ''6 symphonies'' (actually 7; there are two versions called 5)

  • ''Operas''

  • ''Varied Choral and Orchestral Works''

  • ''String Quartets''



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