Morton Feldman

• Born: January 12, 1926, New York, NY
• Died: September 03, 1987, Buffalo, NY
• Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s
• Genres: Avant-Garde
• Instrument: Composer
• Representative Albums: "String Quartet (II)," "Trio," "Viola in My Life (1970)/False Relationships and the Extended Ending (1968) / Why Patt"
• Representative Songs: "Patterns in a Chromatic Field," "For Samuel Beckett," "Why Patterns?/Crippled Symmet"

Biography

Studied piano with Madame Maurina-Press, comp. with Wallingford Riegger, Stefan Wolpe. Was Edgard Varése Professor at State University of New York at Buffalo. Began graphic works, with open pitch and rhythm, and music "free from a compositional rhetoric" in early '50s, eg. Structures for string quartet (1951). Music with pitches given but with freedom of rhythm, eg. The Swallows of Salagan (1960). Later, fully notated works, mostly quiet (in order to perceive timbre and overtone material) with non-dramatic gestures, eg. Piano and Orchestra (1975). Last works of long durations up to six-hour String Quartet No. 2 (1983). ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide

Words and Music Buy this CD	Why Patterns?/Crippled Symmetry Buy this CD	Works for Piano, Vol. 2 Buy this CD	Early and Unknown Piano Works Buy this CD	Trio [hatART] Buy this CD
Triadic Memories Buy this CD	Patterns in a Chromatic Field [Tzadik] Buy this CD	String Quartet (II) Buy this CD	Violin and String Quartet [Christina Fong] Buy this CD	Atlantis: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester, Frankfurt Buy this CD

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