J O H N M I L TO N C A G E J R .

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 John Cage (1988)

Born September 5, 1912

Los Angeles, California,
U.S.
Died August 12, 1992 (aged 79)
Manhattan, New York, US
Nationality American
Occupation Composer and music
theorist, Artist and
philosopher.
LIFE OF JOHN
CAGE
 while his father is perhaps
best characterized by his
inventions: sometimes
idealistic, such as a diesel-
fueled submarine that gave
off exhaust bubbles, the
senior Cage being
uninterested in an
undetectable submarine
His compositional technique
that known for
Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a
piano with its sound altered by objects placed between
or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote
numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces.
The best known of these is Sonatas and Interludes
(194648).
 Thus, on 7 June 1935, he married Xenia Andreyevna
Kashevaroff in the desert at Yuma, Arizona. The couple first
stayed in Pacific Palisades with John's parents but later
shifted to Hollywood.

 He died of a stroke, a hospital spokesman said. The influence of

Mr. Cage, who was also a writer and philosopher, spread far beyond
the musical world.Aug 13, 1992
 Cage discovered that chance was as important of a force
governing a musical composition as the artist's will, and allowed it to
play a central role in all of his compositions.
 QUOTES

I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.

 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of
the old ones.

 There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.