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Earle Brown

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Earle Brown

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American composer (1926–2002)

Person · Open Library

Works
16

Top works

  • Summer Suite '95
  • Tracking Pierrot
  • Perfection
  • Breaking Free
  • Simply Local Flaps

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Listeners · Last.fm

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6,946
Total plays
45,803

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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

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Quotes

  • "Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control."

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Official website
earle-brown.org
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David Arden (left) with Earle Brown in recording session in 1995.jpg
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date of birth
1926-12-26
date of death
2002-07-02
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