John Cage
5 September 1912 – 12 August 1992
John Cage was an American composer, music theorist and artist, a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments. He is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33'', performed in the absence of deliberate sound, and for his influence on postwar avant-garde art.
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Life events
John Cage was born in Los Angeles, the son of an inventor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg, who called him an inventor of genius.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage invented the prepared piano, inserting objects between the strings to alter its sound.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage began his lifelong artistic and personal partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage completed his major cycle of works for prepared piano.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage's silent composition, in which performers make no deliberate sound, was first performed by pianist David Tudor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage published Silence: Lectures and Writings, an influential collection of his essays and ideas.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCage died of a stroke in New York shortly before his 80th birthday.
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