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Udo Kasemets

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Estonian-Canadian composer (1919-2014)

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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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
92
Total plays
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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Udo
Gender
male
Citizenship
Estonia
Place of birth
Tallinn
Place of death
Toronto
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
Estonian
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date of death
2014-01-19
date of birth
1919-11-16
start of work period
1951-00-00
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