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John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 September 1912, 5 October 1912
- Died
- 12 August 1992, 2 August 1992
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Cage
- Mother
- Crete Cage
- Spouse
- Xenia Cage
- Movement
- Fluxus, 20th-century classical music
- Genre
- aleatoric music, opera, classical music, electronic music, experimental music, musique concrète, avant-garde music, performance art, 20th-century classical music
- Field of work
- music composition, experimental music, creative and professional writing, philosophy, audiovisual work, mycology
- Occupation
- composer, writer, poet, university teacher, musicologist, philosopher, painter, music theorist, illustrator, draftsperson, mycologist, visual artist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Zen
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Letters Award in Music, Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- cause of death
- stroke
- copyright representative
- John Cage Trust, reproduction right not represented by CISAC member
- described by source
- UbuWeb, mediakunst.net
- different from
- Johnny Cage
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 1992
- has works in the collection
- Städel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Art Institute of Chicago, Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, National Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, Walker Art Center, Taubman Museum of Art, Vanderbilt Museum of Art
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- lifestyle
- mysticism
- list of works
- list of compositions by John Cage
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- arthritis
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, The 8th Street Club, New York Mycological Society, North American Mycological Association, International Society for Contemporary Music
- name in native language
- John Cage
- notable work
- The Perilous Night, Two², In the Name of the Holocaust, Bacchanale, 4′33″, Sonatas and Interludes, ORGAN²/ASLSP
- participant in
- documenta 8
- partner in business or sport
- Margaret Leng Tan
- political ideology
- anarchism
- pseudonym
- Cage, Jr., John Milton
- record label
- ECM Records
- related category
- Category:Compositions by John Cage
- represented by
- Electronic Arts Intermix, LIMA
- sexual orientation
- non-heterosexuality
- start of work period
- 1938
- student
- Geeta Sarabhai
- topic's main category
- Category:John Cage
- unmarried partner
- Merce Cunningham
- work location
- Europe, New York City
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