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Morton Feldman
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Morton Feldman (1926–1987) was an American composer and university teacher. Born in New York City, he studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and New York University. His musical work is associated with experimental, contemporary classical, and avant-garde genres. Feldman received a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as a faculty member at the University at Buffalo. He was a student of Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe, and taught students including Michael von Biel and Tom Johnson.
Feldman’s recorded works include *Durations*, *Neither*, and *Musiques nord américaines*. He passed away in Buffalo from pancreatic cancer.
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Film & TV
Queens, New York, USA
Known for
- Cornelius Cardew: 1936-1981 — Self1986
- Morton Feldman and lannis Xenakis, A Conversation — Himself1986
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 1987
Discography
- The Viola in My Life / False Relationships and the Extended Ending1971
- Feldman: Spring of Chosroes / Schnabel: Sonata for Violin and Piano1981
- Three Voices (for Joan La Barbara)1989
- Triadic Memories1989
- For John Cage1990
- Triadic Memories1990
- Works for Piano1990
- For Samuel Beckett1991
- Pieces for More Than Two Hands1991
- Rothko Chapel / Why Patterns?1991
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 153,329
- Total plays
- 2,380,327
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Morton Feldman (born January 12, 1926, died September 3, 1987) was an American composer. He is best known for his instrumental pieces which are frequently written for unusual groups of instruments, feature isolated, carefully chosen, predominantly quiet sounds, and are often very long. Feldman was born in New York City. He studied piano with Madame Maurina-Press, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, and later composition with Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mort
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-01-12 ) January 12, 1926, New York City, US
- Died
- September 3, 1987 (1987-09-03) (aged 61), Buffalo, New York
- Works
- List of compositions
- Spouse
- Barbara Monk Feldman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1987 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Buffalo
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- New York University
- Employer
- University at Buffalo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Student of
- Stefan Wolpe
- Genre
- avant-garde music
- Instrument
- piano
- Mass
- 300
- Image
- Persconferentie componist Morton Feldman in concertgebouw Amsterdam in verband m, Bestanddeelnr 928-6142.jpg
- Height
- 72
Show 14 more facts
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1926-01-12
- date of death
- 1987-09-03
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- Commons category
- Morton Feldman
- student
- Tom Johnson
- name in native language
- Morton Feldman
- nickname
- Morty
- influenced by
- 20th-century art
- ethnic group
- Russian Jews
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- P12674
- Simon Rawidowicz
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Encyclopedic overview
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was an important exponent of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration.
Biography
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