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Frederic Rzewski
Sign in to saveAlso known as Frederic Anthony Rzewski, Frederick Rzewski
American pianist and composer (1938–2021)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Piano Music of Frederic Rzewski
- The people united will never be defeated!
- Nonsequiturs
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1938-04-13
- Active to
- 2021-06-26
modern classicalwestern classical
Discography
- Attica / Coming Together / Les Moutons de Panurge1974
- Threads1977
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (36 Variations on a Chilean Song)1978
- 「不屈の民」変奏曲1979
- Louis Andriessen: Hoketus / Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together1980
- Paul Jacobs Plays Blues, Ballads & Rags1980
- Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood / Rzewski: Coming Together / Attica / Szemző: Water-Wonder / Melis: Etude for Three Mirrors1983
- For Cornelius / Era ora1986
- L'Instruction1989
- La nuova musica, Volume 101990
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18,802
- Total plays
- 290,277
Tags
contemporary classicalpianoAvant-GardeClassicalamerican
Frederic Rzewski (born Westfield, Massachusetts, 1938) studied music first with Charles Mackey of Springfield, and subsequently with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He went to Italy in 1960, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and met Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he performed in a number of concerts, thus beginning a career as a performer of new piano music. His early friendship with Christian Wolff and David Behrman <a href="https:
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anthony
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Westfield
- Place of death
- Montiano
- Occupation
- music educator
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Employer
- Royal Conservatory of Liège
- Notable work
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
- Student of
- Milton Babbitt
- Genre
- art music
- Instrument
- piano
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1938-04-13
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- date of death
- 2021-06-26
- Commons category
- Frederic Rzewski
- P12674
- Vigna
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