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John Cage (1912-1992) was an American composer.

Short Biography:

A pupil of Schoenberg and Cowell, he joined others in reacting against the European art music tradition in favour of a more realistic idiom open to non-Western attitudes.

Working in films during the 1930s he asssembled and toured a percussion orchestra incorporating ethnic instruments and noise-makers, for which the First Construction in Metal in 1930 was composed.

He also invented the prepared piano (in which the to read more...

Tags: composer, piano, theorist

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