Udo Kasemets
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Canavangard
- Modern Composer and His World
- Calceolaria [time/space variations on a floral theme]
- Communications
- Contactics
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1919-11-16
- Active to
- 2014-01-19
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- 92
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- 1,437
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Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 - January 19, 2014) was an Estonian-born Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lecturer, pianist, organist, teacher and writer. Kasemets was born in Tallinn, Estonia, and trained at the Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie der Musik in Stuttgart. In 1950, he attended the Kranichstein Institut für neue Musik in Darmstadt <a href="https