avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992) began composing pieces for solo prepared piano around 1938–40. The majority of early works for this instrument were...
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calls for Luthéal, but allows piano with paper to substitute. The invention of the "prepared piano", per se, is usually traced to John Cage. Cage first...
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1993 documentary about Cage by Henning Lohner. Works for prepared piano by John Cage Cage quoted in Kostelanetz 2003, 1–2. Cage mentions a working model...
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twenty pieces for prepared piano by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1946–48, shortly after Cage's introduction...
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list of compositions by John Cage (1912–1992), arranged in chronological order by year of composition. Greek Ode, for voice and piano (1932) First Chapter...
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Richard Bunger Evans (section Prepared piano)
worked with John Cage and subsequently wrote "the classic book on John Cage," The Well-Prepared Piano. Evans has composed and performed music for opera and...
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4′33″ (redirect from Cage Against the Machine)
4′33″ is a modernist composition by American experimental composer John Cage. It was composed in 1952 for any instrument or combination of instruments;...
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several pieces by American composer John Cage, all scored for unorthodox percussion instruments. The pieces were composed in 1939–42 while Cage was working...
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electronic musical techniques in combination with the John Cage-pioneered technique of the prepared piano. Moran signed with Warp Records in September 2018...
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Fazıl Say (redirect from Beethoven Sonatas for Piano (album))
attention with the piano piece Black Earth, Op. 8 (1997), in which he employs techniques made popular by John Cage's works for prepared piano. After this, Say...
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Boris Berman (musician) (category Piano educators)
recordings) 2 releases of works for prepared piano by John Cage (Naxos), which was named the Top Recording by the BBC Music Magazine Piano Quintets of Shostakovich...
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Bacchanale (section Works cited)
needed] John Cage wrote a Bacchanale in 1940, his first work for prepared piano. The French composer Jacques Ibert was commissioned by the BBC for the tenth...
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article lists compositions written for piano duo. The list includes works for piano four-hands and works for two pianos. Catalogue number and date of composition...
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Christian Wolff (composer) (section Major works)
greatly impress John Cage after Wolff had given him a copy. Wolff became an American citizen in 1946. When he was sixteen (in 1950) his piano teacher Grete...
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Credo in Us (category Compositions by John Cage)
emergency". Jean Erdman recalls that for the first performance a 'tack-piano' was used—one of Cage's prepared pianos, though the pianist is also called...
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Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (London, 1975) John Cage, Winter Music (Another Timbre, 2017) Cornelius Cardew, Piano Music 1959–70 (Matchless...
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Anthem of the Sun (category Works for prepared piano)
the United States Air Force to provide piano, prepared piano, and electronic tape effects influenced by John Cage and Stockhausen. Constanten would formally...
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diva of the prepared piano, inserting nuts and bolts into the instrument and playing it inside out to rave reviews. In 1981 Tan met John Cage, and since...
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record for a composer's piano. Modernist styles of music have also appealed to composers writing for the modern grand piano, including John Cage and Philip...
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Stuttgart. In the 1980s, the music of John Cage and free-jazz influenced the aleatoric aesthetic of Palmer’s early chamber works, an approach which he later rejected...
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bare in the work.[vague] The term experimental music was coined by Cage to describe works that produce unpredictable results, according to the definition...
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Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (category Compositions by John Cage)
is a composition for records of constant and variable frequency, large chinese cymbal and string piano by American composer John Cage and the first in...
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faithfulness to the original intentions of the composer. John Cage's music for prepared piano was executed by him after several exchanges with the composer about...
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Piano extended techniques are those in which unorthodox or unconventional techniques are used to create the sound. prepared piano, i.e. introducing foreign...
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78029–1, 1985, LP only John Cage Solo for voice 45 (1978) Chiaroscuro, LP CR-196, 1978 Lou Harrison May Rain on "Prepared Piano--the First of Four Decades"...
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Drukqs (category Works for prepared piano)
beats inspired by jungle and drum and bass, classical-type piano and prepared piano, ambient, and electroacoustic pieces. It features the piano composition...
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Etudes Australes (category Compositions by John Cage)
Etudes Australes is a set of etudes for piano solo by John Cage, composed in 1974–75 for Grete Sultan. It comprises 32 indeterminate pieces written using...
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Henry Cowell (category Composers for piano)
Cowell's endeavors with string piano techniques were the primary inspiration for John Cage's development of the prepared piano. In early chamber music pieces...
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piano. Daughters of the Lonesome Isle: John Cage (New Albion 070)—includes In the Name of the Holocaust (1942) for string piano and Music for Piano No...
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Extended technique (section Piano)
of fists and arms on the keyboard, playing inside the piano), John Cage (prepared piano), and George Crumb. The Kronos Quartet, which has been among the...
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