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Earle Brown
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Summer Suite '95
- Tracking Pierrot
- Perfection
- Breaking Free
- Simply Local Flaps
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2002
blueschristmas musicdiscofilm soundtrackfunkrhythm & blues
Discography
- The New York School1992
- The New York School 21994
- New York School 31995
- Synergy1995
- Collected Early Works2000
- The New York School: Nine Realizations of Cage, Feldman, Brown2004
- Folio and Four Systems2006
- Tracer2007
- Selected Works for Piano and/or Sound-Producing Media2018
- Music for Piano(s) 1951-1995 (piano: David Arden)
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,946
- Total plays
- 45,803
Tags
contemporary classicalAvant-GardeexperimentalamericanClassical
Earle Brown was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1926. He studied mathematics and engineering at Northeastern University, and attended the Schillinger House School of Music for techniques of composition and orchestration. Mr. Brown has been a major force in contemporary music since the early 1950's. His work at that time with new notations, scoring methods, and performance attitudes led to his development of graphic, improvisational <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Earle+Brown
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lunenburg
- Place of death
- Rye
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Berklee College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- experimental music
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Record label
- Tzadik Records
- Official website
- earle-brown.org
- Image
- David Arden (left) with Earle Brown in recording session in 1995.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- cause of death
- cancer
- date of birth
- 1926-12-26
- date of death
- 2002-07-02
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- has works in the collection
- ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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