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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. He did not agree with many of the views of these composition teachers, and he spent much of his time simply arguing with them. Feldman was composing at this time, but in a style very different from that with which he would later be associated.
In 1950, Feldman went to hear the New York Philharmonic give a performance of Anton Webern’s Symphony. At the concert, he met John Cage, and the two became good friends. Under Cage’s influence, Feldman began to write pieces which had no relation to compositional systems of the past, such as the constraints of traditional harmony or the serial technique. He experimented with non-standard systems of musical notation, often using grids in his scores, and specifying how many notes should be played at a certain time, but not which ones. Feldman’s experiments with the use of chance in his composition in turn inspired John Cage to write pieces like the Music of Changes, where the notes to be played are determined by consulting the I Ching. aleatoric music and indeterminate music.]
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. He did not agree with many of the views of these composition teachers, and he spent much of his time simply arguing with them. Feldman was composing at this time, but in a style very different from that with which he would later be associated.
In 1950, Feldman went to hear the New York Philharmonic give a performance of Anton Webern’s Symphony. At the concert, he met John Cage, and the two became good friends. Under Cage’s influence, Feldman began to write pieces which had no relation to compositional systems of the past, such as the constraints of traditional harmony or the serial technique. He experimented with non-standard systems of musical notation, often using grids in his scores, and specifying how many notes should be played at a certain time, but not which ones. Feldman’s experiments with the use of chance in his composition in turn inspired John Cage to write pieces like the Music of Changes, where the notes to be played are determined by consulting the I Ching. aleatoric music and indeterminate music.]
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Voices And Cello
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Opening
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Snow falls
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LordRama wrote:
Fuck I need to listen to this guy.
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LordRama wrote:
Feldman: "My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue... He was on the second floor and we were looking out the window, and he said, 'What about the man on the street?' At that moment, Jackson Pollock was crossing the street."
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shaeba wrote:
Modern Music & Cinema DL: http://my.opera.com/schahed/blog/
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handmeups wrote:
He wasn't strange. He was just a person.
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thaumo wrote:
nobody gives a fuck about your shitty music.
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kaplain wrote:
Hi all, my debut album is out, if you enjoy ambient piano music like Rachel Grimes, Yann Tiersen, Max Richter, Michael Nyman ... Download High MP3 or Flac+ full digital booklet at http://stephanehoreczko.bandcamp.com/ or shop at iTunes, Amazonmp3, emusic, Lala, Rhapsody .... warmest regards http://stephane.horeczko.free.fr
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Bram_F. wrote:
@sweetdy - a good runner-up.
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insomniacme wrote:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT I ACCIDENLT REMOVED HIM FROM MY LIBRARY:((((( NOOOOOOOO, I was so awesome with 70 something plays! :(((((
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TMaltheus wrote:
a strange man who made strange music
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jcarlos304 wrote:
Morton Feldman es uno de los mejores, oscuros, profundos y relevantes músicos contemporáneas en la esfera de las Nuevas Músicas "serias" y la clásica contemporánea en general.
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handmeups wrote:
yikes
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sGarrista- wrote:
SirAlecHendrix unlinked Morton Feldman from Sophisticated Taste. Thursday evening :(
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ztwig wrote:
He died on my birthday! Cool
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Gamester wrote:
Hey! Care to join the new "American Classical Music" group? Check it out and join if you like! :o)
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sweetdy wrote:
sure i have. and the song in question is for samuel beckett. have you even listened to when the electricity goes out in the submarine? on second thought i dont care.
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handmeups wrote:
i doubt it, sweetdy. i don't think you've even listened to Feldman.
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sweetdy wrote:
i'll argue with that bram_f. listen to" when the electricity goes out in the submarine" by loftus
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lonewolflives wrote:
damn this is good
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handmeups wrote:
"He did not agree with many of the views of these composition teachers, and he spent much of his time simply arguing with them." I like that ;)
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iwatchon wrote:
I managed to get hold of the entire six hours of String Quartet No. 2 interpreted by the FLUX Quartet. unspeakable. breathtaking.
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