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{{Short description|American composer and teacher (1939–2022)}}
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[[File:JonAppleton (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Appleton in 2013]]
'''Jon Howard Appleton''' (January 4, 1939 – January 30, 2022) was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in [[electro-acoustic music]]. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre" and "Newark Airport Rock" (1967) attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called [[Program music|programmatic]] [[electronic music]]. In 1970, he won [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim]],{{Sfn|''Rutland Daily Herald''|1970}} [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]] and [[The American-Scandinavian Foundation|American-Scandinavian Foundation]] fellowships. When he was twenty-eight years old, he joined the faculty of [[Dartmouth College]] where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years. In the mid-1970s, he left Dartmouth to briefly become the head of [[Elektronmusikstudion]] (EMS) [[:sv:Elektronmusikstudion|(sv)]] in [[Stockholm]], Sweden. In the late 1970s, together with [[New England Digital|Sydney Alonso]] and [[New England Digital|Cameron Jones]], he helped develop the first commercial [[Digital data|digital]] [[synthesizer]] called the [[Synclavier]].{{Sfn|"Synclavier Early History" ||p=}} For a decade he toured around the United States and [[Europe]] performing the compositions he composed for this instrument. In the early 1990s, he helped found the [[Theremin Center|Theremin Center for Electronic Music]] at the [[Moscow State Conservatory|Moscow Conservatory of Music]]. He also taught at [[Keio University]] (Mita) in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], [[CCRMA]] at [[Stanford University]] and the [[University of California Santa Cruz]]. In his later years, he devoted most of his time to the composition of instrumental and [[choral]] music in a quasi-[[Romantic music|Romantic]] vein which has largely been performed only in France, Russia and Japan.