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Begin again : a biography of John Cage

Author:Kenneth Silverman

Summary:John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist.--Publisher description

Print Book, English, 2010

Edition:1st ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010

Genre:Biography

Physical Description:483 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9781400044375, 1400044375

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:503041952

Subjects:

Cage, John 1912-1992

Cage, John Biographie

Cage, John, 1912-1992

Composers United States Biography

Compositeurs États-Unis Biographies

Tonsättare Förenta staterna 1900-talet biografi

Contents:

Comes up famous

The art of noise

East and West

Music of changes

The ten thousand things

Indeterminacy

Fractures

HPSCHD

Empty words

Apartment house

Changes and disappearances

Time brackets

Europeras

Anarchic harmony

1992

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