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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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Rohtko Chapel 1
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Why Patterns?
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A non accented legato
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Voices And Cello
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Opening
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slow waltz
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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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nancykitten wrote:
When I hear Rothko Chapel I imagine it as the soundtrack to Paradise Lost, had it been made into a silent film in the surrealist era.
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andresgualdron wrote:
kept in a museum? I dream of feldman's music sounding on the streets!
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insomniacme wrote:
Badass pic. Vote this down and I will find out where you live.
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phillip360 wrote:
You are invited to siphon and emit the animate marrow of the coital and galvanising 'pataphysics group
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BurntFingers wrote:
music this old, and this good should be kept in a museum
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zaynzaynzayn wrote:
this is what samuel beckett meant when he said "this is what he did this is what he said"
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