Morton Feldman

Bio:

MORTON FELDMAN was born in New York City on 12 January 1926. Studies: Madame Maurina-Press, Wallingford Riegger, Stefan Wolpe. The meeting of Feldman and John Cage took place in the year 1949. Cage was instrumental in encouraging Feldman to have confidence in his instincts, which resulted in totally intuitive compositions. He never worked with any systems that anyone has been able to identify, working from moment to moment, from one sound to the next. Friends/Collaborators: Earle Brown, David Tudor, Robert Rauschenberg, Christian Wolff, Phillip Guston, among many others... Graph notation experiments were done in 1950 (Projection 2) until 1953. After discovering that traditional notation was also too one-dimensional, he returned to graph notation in 1958 to 1967. During this period, the works "Atlantis", "Durations", and "Last Pieces" From 1973 until his death in 1986, Feldman was the Edgard Varese Professor at the University of New York at Buffalo. During the mid-late 1970's, Feldman's "pattern" works expanded to greater lengths of time, requiring intense concentration...the most notable work being his Second String Quartet, which can last from 5 1/2 to six hours. He married Barbara Monk in the summer of 1987 and passed away later that year on 3 September in Buffalo, NY. RULES FOR THIS PAGE: Please refrain from posting a "Thanks for the add" comment on this page, or it will be deleted. Also, please refrain from advertising band performances on THIS page, this is why you have your own page. Artwork and photos are cool, but keep it clean ;). This is a new user operating this page, please respect it. Fans, friends, and celebrated composers are delightfully welcome! Thanks and enjoy the music...

Member Since:

April 20, 2006

Members:

Stephen Altoft- trpt. Max Neuhaus- perc.

Influences:

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

Sounds Like:

In a kind of middle-aged crisis, it dawned upon me that there was a possibility that music might not even be an art form...