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    Frederic Anthony Rzewski (/ˈʒɛfski/ ZHEF-skee; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important...
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  • The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (category Compositions by Frederic Rzewski)
    Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a piano composition by American composer Frederic Rzewski. The People United is a set of 36 variations on the Chilean song "¡El...
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  • founding members were Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Jon Phetteplace and Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum. and Carol Plantamura. Other members include Ivan...
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  • This is a list of compositions by Frederic Rzewski. The Persians (1985) The Triumph of Death (1987–88) Nature Morte, for small orchestra (1964) A Long...
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  • of Liège with Frederic Rzewski, Walter Zimmerman, Henri Pousseur and Vinko Globokar. He later worked as assistant of Frederic Rzewski at the Conservatory...
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    grant, where he befriended American expatriate composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski and witnessed performances by John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and David...
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    Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Michael Mantler (see below), Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Michel Waisvisz (see below), Han Bennink (see above), and Brion Gysin...
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  • contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Elliott Carter, and John Zorn. He is the music director of the contemporary...
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    "Antigone-Legend", for soprano and piano (text by Bertolt Brecht), by Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021) and presented as a play in two slightly different versions...
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  • to different eras and musical styles. In 1975, the American pianist Frederic Rzewski composed The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, a set of 36 piano...
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    Derek Bailey, Douglas Ewart, Alfred Harth, Evan Parker, Fred Anderson, Frederic Rzewski, Gil Evans, Han Bennink, Irène Schweizer, J. D. Parran, James Newton...
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    Palestine, Ben Johnston (on Harry Partch), Steve Reich, David Rosenboom, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young...
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  • Nanosonatas (category Compositions by Frederic Rzewski)
    (2006–2010) are piano compositions by American composer Frederic Rzewski. In the summer of 2006, Rzewski’s friend Hideyuki Arata, a Japanese scientist specialized...
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  • of John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick, Missy Mazzoli, Kate Moore, Frederic Rzewski, and Julia Wolfe – made both The New York Times Top Classical Albums...
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  • altogether. This referred to the British miners' strike of 1984–85. Frederic Rzewski composed a ballad for solo piano based on the song. Christian Wolff...
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  • Peter Lieberson, Patricia Morehead, Conlon Nancarrow, Tobias Picker, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Shawn, Alvin Singleton, Richard Teitelbaum, Francis Thorne,...
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    Hamm, George Lynn, William P. Perry, Christopher King, Joel Cohen, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Edward Wilson, John Walter Hill, and David Borden. In honor...
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  • String Quartet No. 4 "Ascent" (Variations on "Amazing Grace", 1973), Frederic Rzewski, The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975), Frans Geysen, De...
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    was the basis of one of the ballads by modernist composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski in his Four North American Ballads for solo piano, completed in 1979...
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    of Mahler's Adagietto, Billy Joel's "And So It Goes", Frederic Rzewski's "A Mensch", and Frederic Weatherly's "Danny Boy" 30 March 2020: Beethoven's Piano...
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  • Profundis, a piano sonata by Boris Arapov De Profundis, a composition by Frederic Rzewski for solo piano "De Profundis", a song by Dead Can Dance "De Profundis"...
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    Georges Brassens (1964). Les Moutons de Panurge is a piece by composer Frederic Rzewski (1969).  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from...
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  • Homages and Dedications". "Who we are - Frederic Rzewski". Musikeon. Retrieved 2012-04-30. Free scores by Frederic Rzewski at the International Music Score Library...
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    music. During the 1960s he developed associations with the composers Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew who spurred each other on in their respective...
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  • Million Dollar Quartet) Etta James The Four Knights The Four Lads, 1953 Frederic Rzewski (a classical piano version) The Golden Echo Boys [Of God's Bible School]...
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    people. In the sixties and seventies, the American musicians/composers Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of the group Musica Elettronica Viva, lived...
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    Greenaway, Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Gordon Mumma, Frederic Rzewski, Ridge Theater, The Future Sound of London, Leisure Class, Elliott...
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    Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Kapustin, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Medtner and Frederic Rzewski. Hamelin has also composed several works, including a set of piano...
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    Island, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. He is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student...
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    (trombone, cello) Roland Kayn (Hammond organ, vibraphone, marimba) Frederic Rzewski (piano) Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone, assorted wind instruments)...
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