John Cage
American composer and music theorist
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John Milton Cage Jr. 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. Wikipedia
Born: September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, CA
Died: August 12, 1992 (age 79 years), Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, New York, NY
Influenced by: Arnold Schoenberg, Erik Satie, and D. T. Suzuki
Spouse: Xenia Cage (m. 1935–1945)
Parents: Crete Cage and John Milton Cage, Sr.
Occupations: Composer; music theorist; artist; philosopher
Compositions
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Apr 12, 2024 · John Cage was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century ...
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Sep 27, 2010 · Cage held that an artist can work as freely with sound as with paint: he changed what it meant to be a composer, and every kid manipulating ...
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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 ...
The John Cage Trust was established in 1993 as a not-for-profit institution whose mission is to gather together, organize, preserve, disseminate, ...
Nov 21, 2012 · Neither a painter or a sculptor, Cage is best known for revolutionizing modern music through his incorporation of unconventional instrumentation ...