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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1912-10-27
- Active to
- 1997-08-10
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Discography
- Player Piano 5, Volume 3: Studies 33-41c
- Studies for Player Piano1969
- Studies for Player Piano, Volume III & IV1990
- Studies for Player Piano, Volume I & II1991
- Studies1993
- Counterpoint1996
- Lost Works, Last Works2000
- Piano Music2001
- Studies for Player Piano and Solos2004
- Nancarrow: String Quartet no. 3 / Ligeti: String Quartet no. 2 / Dutilleux: String Quarted "Ainsi la nuit"2005
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Conlon Nancarrow (b. October 27, 1912, Texarkana - d. August 10, 1997, Mexico City) was an American-born composer who lived most of his life in Mexico. Nancarrow is remembered almost exclusively for the pieces he wrote for the player piano. He was one of the first composers to use musical instruments as mechanical machines, utilising their capacity to play complex polyrhythms at tempos far beyond human performance ability. Not becoming widely known until the 1980s, Nancarrow lived most of his li
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Texarkana
- Place of death
- Mexico City
- Occupation
- pianist
- Political party
- Communist Party of the United States of America
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Instrument
- piano
- Conflict
- Spanish Civil War
- Military branch
- International Brigades
- Official website
- www.nancarrow.de/studies_for_pp.htm
- Image
- Conlon-nancarrow-1418515548.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1912-10-27
- date of death
- 1997-08-10
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- Conlon Nancarrow
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- Conlon Nancarrow
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