John cage compositions
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Born in Los Angeles (USA) on 5 September 1912, John Cage was a musician, writer, painter, mycologist, and thinker, who crafted his life as an ongoing process and lived outside all categorization.
His first contact with music was through the piano lessons he took as a child. Later, in 1930, bored with an education based on repetition and uniformity, he set sail for Europe looking for new experiences. Returning to California the following year, he began studying composition with Richard Buhlig and Henry Cowell, and then undertook private lessons with Adolph Weiss. In 1935 he married Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff, from whom he separated ten years later. From 1934 to 1936 he studied analysis, composition, harmony, and counterpoint with Arnold Schoenberg, which gave him occasion to understand how little inclined to harmonic thinking he was. From 1938 to 1940, he worked at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he met Merce Cunningham, who would become his companion and collaborator. It was during this period that he wrote his manifesto on music, “The Future of Music: Credo” inv
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
Cage's teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cage's major influences lay in various East and South Asian cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text and decision-making tool, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lect
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John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912–1992)
This article is about the composer. For other people with the same name, see John Cage (disambiguation).
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| Born | John Milton Cage Jr. (1912-09-05)September 5, 1912 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | August 12, 1992(1992-08-12) (aged 79) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Pomona College |
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| Partner | Merce Cunningham |
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.[1][2][3][4] He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
Cage's teachers included Henry Cowell
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