Seter learned to play the piano from the age of seven in Russia, and continued with his lessons and studies in Tel Aviv . In 1932, he went to Paris, France, where he studied composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger.
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By the 1970s, his style had developed further : the modes now unfold the aggregate diatonically over as many as two octaves ( in as many as 25 pitches ), leading in such cases to pitch-class repetition and contributing to Seter's cherished sense of pitch centricity.