John Cage Affinities
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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- piano
- aleatoric music, opera, classical music, electronic music, experimental music, musique concrète, avant-garde music, performance art, 20th-century classical music
- United States of America
- composer, writer, poet, university teacher, musicologist, philosopher, painter, music theorist, illustrator, drawer, mycologist, visual artist
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Are listed here known relationships with artists and orchestras, such as influences, similarities, collaborations, family bonds.
Influences, influencers, influenced...
These composers have influenced John Cage:
- Pierre Boulez (1925 - 2016)
- Henry Cowell (1897 - 1965)
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Morton Feldman (1926 - 1987)
- Lou Harrison (1917 - 2003)
- Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
- Conlon Nancarrow (1912 - 1997)
- Erik Satie (1866 - 1925)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Edgard Varèse (1883 - 1965)
- Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)
- Christian Wolff (age 90)
- Stefan Wolpe (1902 - 1972)
John Cage has been trained by Lazare Lévy (piano), George Frederick McKay.
John Cage has influenced these composers:
- John Adams (age 77)
- Louis Andriessen (1939 - 2021)
- Harrison Birtwistle (1934 - 2022)
- Pierre Boulez (1925 - 2016)
- George Crumb (1929 - 2022)
- Morton Feldman (1926 - 1987)
- Philip Glass (age 87)
- Lou Harrison (1917 - 2003)
- Mauricio Kagel (1931 - 2008)
- György Ligeti (1923 - 2006)
- Witold Lutosławski (1913 - 1994)
- Conlon Nancarrow (1912 - 1997)
- Michael Nyman (age 80)
- Pauline Oliveros (1932 - 2016)
- Krzysztof Penderecki (1933 - 2020)
- Steve Reich (age 87)
- Terry Riley (age 88)
- R. Murray Schafer (1933 - 2021)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1930 - 1996)
- Tan Dun (age 66)
- Christian Wolff (age 90)
John Cage has teached Toshi Ichiyanagi.
John Cage: some musical similarities
Do you like John Cage's work? Then you might appreciate the work of these composers, some of which have significant similarities :
Family and affectional bonds
Only people having a connection with music are cited here.
Parents
Siblings
Xenia Cage
Merce Cunningham
Childrens
Note: Influence and similarity relationships are not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. They come from a data analysis method, based on publications of Pr. Charles H. Smith (Western Kentucky University, USA) and Pr. Patrick Georges (University of Ottawa, Canada). See copyrights page (section 2. Contents) (...)
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- timeline: Composers (North America). Performers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): C...