John Cage

Composer, Music Department, Writer

Birthdate: Sep 5, 1912

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

Died: Aug 12, 1992

Innovative Composer and pianist, educated at Pomona College, he studied music with Fannie Dillon, Ruhan Buhlig, Lazare Levy, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, Arnold Schönberg, and Edgard Varèse. He invented the concept of the "prepared" piano, and gave recitals in Europe and the United States. He joined ASCAP in 1955.

Known For

Variations V
Variations V

(1966)

Film über Nichts
Film über Nichts

(1992)

One 11 and 103
One 11 and 103

(1992)

John Cage Movies

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  • 2022 |
    Personality Crisis: One Night Only
  • 2020 |
    Twinkle Dammit!as Toy Instrumentalist
  • 2018 |
    Site-Specific: The History of the Mattress Factory
  • 2014 |
    Before the Last Drop
  • 2012 |
    John Cage: Journeys in Sound
  • 2011 |
    Ryoanji
  • 2010 |
    Novembre
  • 2009 |
    Varese: The One All Alone
  • 2006 |
    A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki
  • 2005 |
    Trying to Describe Oneself
  • 1998 |
    Sonic Acts: From Stockhausen to Squarepusher
  • 1995 |
    John Cage: From Zero
  • 1992 |
    22708 Types
  • 1992 |
    Film über Nichts
  • 1992 |
    One 11 and 103
  • 1991 |
    Cage/Cunningham
  • 1991 |
    Fluxconcert
  • 1991 |
    Peefeeyatko
  • 1989 |
    Mr. Hoover and I
  • 1988 |
    Time Is Music: Elliott Carter and John Cage
  • 1985 |
    Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
  • 1983 |
    Sometimes It Works, Sometimes It Doesn't
  • 1982 |
    Poetry in Motion
  • 1979 |
    Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
  • 1977 |
    A Rose: That's What Life Is All Aboutas Schachspieler (Chess Player)
  • 1972 |
    American Art in the 1960s
  • 1972 |
    Birdcage - 73'20.958'' for a Composer
  • 1972 |
    New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde, New York 1971
  • 1968 |
    Assemblage
  • 1966 |
    John Cage
  • 1966 |
    Variations V
  • 1947 |
    Dreams That Money Can Buy

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  • 2019 |

    Cunningham

  • 2017 |

    In Pursuit of Silence