Conductor, Composer. A versatile maestro, he shall be remembered for his massive body of work in both classical music and Jazz. Raised in New York City where his father was a violinist with the New York Philharmonic, he studied in Germany as well as at the St. Thomas Choir School, became a top-drawer French Horn Player, and was in the college-prep division of the Manhattan School of Music when he dropped-out to pursue his own career. After spending a decade as the first chair horn player with the Cincinnati Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera, a span during which he wrote "First Horn Concerto" (1945) and 1950's "Symphony for Brass and Percussion", in 1955 he joined pianist John Lewis in founding the Modern Jazz Society and began producing, always on commission, a steady stream of compositions, amomg them 1957's "Transformation" and "Concertino" and "Abstraction" (both 1959) and during a 1957 lecture at Brandeis University coined the term "Third Stream Jazz" to describe the fusion of classical and Jazz. Though a much sought sideman for Frank Sinatra and others, he gave up performing, at least for a time, in 1959 and spent a decade as president of the New England Conservatory and later as head of Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center, all the while staying busy as a composer, organizing the New England Ragtime Ensemble, occasionally guest-conducting major symphonic orchestras, and producing his only opera, 1966's "The Visitation". A bit of an iconoclast, he could extol the benefits of a conservatory education to new students while pointing out to them that he himself had no degree and could embrace the Viennese 12-Tone-Method and decry modern music in the same sentence. In later years he kept writing and teaching and from 1993 on was in charge of Spokane's Northwest Bach Festival; his honors were many, among them a 1974 Grammy for "The Red Back Book", a Scott Joplin anthology, and a 1994 Pulitzer Prize for "Of Reminescences and Refections", a piece written in honor of his wife after she died in 1992. Mr. Schuller lived out his days in the Boston suburbs, was a prodigious collector of musical artifacts, conducted in public as late as 2013, and died of leukemia.