John Cage
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John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the
Cage in 1988
Cage studied with composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1933 to 1935.
An example of a prepared piano
Composer Morton Feldman in 1976
4′33″
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4′33″ is a modernist composition by American experimental composer John Cage. It was composed in 1952 for any instrument or combination of instruments; the score instructs performers not to play their
John Cage
…nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living". Cage's best known work is the 1952 composition 4′33″, a piece performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who perform the work do nothing but be present for the duration specified by the title…
Sheet music for Allais' Funeral March, containing no musical notes
Page of rests, from the score of Erwin Schulhoff's In Futurum
Daisetz Suzuki, whose approach to Zen Buddhism influenced Cage