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Morton Feldman
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926
- Died
- 1987
- Works
- 94
Top works
- Musiques nord américaines
- Neither
- Morton Feldman in Middelburg
- Durations
- Morton Feldman (Musik-Konzepte) (German Edition)
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Film & TV
Sound · Queens, New York, USA
Known for
- Cornelius Cardew: 1936-1981 — Self1986
- Morton Feldman and lannis Xenakis, A Conversation — Himself1986
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 1987
Discography
- The Viola in My Life / False Relationships and the Extended Ending1971
- Feldman: Spring of Chosroes / Schnabel: Sonata for Violin and Piano1981
- Three Voices (for Joan La Barbara)1989
- Triadic Memories1989
- For John Cage1990
- Triadic Memories1990
- Works for Piano1990
- For Samuel Beckett1991
- Pieces for More Than Two Hands1991
- Rothko Chapel / Why Patterns?1991
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 153,329
- Total plays
- 2,380,327
Tags
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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mort
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 149
- Cited by
- 151
Research areas
Most cited works
- Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman2004 · 126 cit
- Between categories1988 · 4 cit
- Piano and string quartet1985 · 2 cit
- The viola in my life. IV1972 · 2 cit
- Three voices for Joan La Barbara1989 · 2 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,576x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
- The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 9,159x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,010x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.”
- “Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.”
- “If you don't have a friend who's a painter, you're in trouble.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-01-12 ) January 12, 1926, New York City, US
- Died
- September 3, 1987 (1987-09-03) (aged 61), Buffalo, New York
- Works
- List of compositions
- Spouse
- Barbara Monk Feldman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1987 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was an important exponent of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morton Feldman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.