Frederic Rzewski (born Westfield, Massachusetts, 1938) studied music first with Charles Mackey of Springfield, and subsequently with
Walter Piston,
Roger Sessions, and
Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He went to Italy in 1960, where he studied with
Luigi Dallapiccola and met Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he performed in a number of concerts, thus beginning a career as a performer of new piano music. His early friendship with
Christian Wolff and David Behrman, and his acquaintance with
John Cage and
David Tudor, strongly influenced his development in both compos…
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