COMPOSER

Morton Feldman

1926 - 1987

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Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morton Feldman has received more than 536,413 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Morton Feldman is the 617th most popular composer (down from 548th in 2019), the 2,869th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,621st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Morton Feldman ranks 617 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Helmut Lachenmann, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Kurt Atterberg, and Robert Fuchs. After him are Alois Hába, Francesco Canova da Milano, Jeremiah Clarke, Léon Boëllmann, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and Pancho Vladigerov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Morton Feldman ranks 149. Before him are Raul Hilberg, Bhupen Hazarika, Jambyn Batmönkh, Joshua Fishman, Don Rickles, and Marie-Claire Alain. After him are Peter Alexander, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Elias Hrawi, John Derek, Jaba Ioseliani, and Raif Dizdarević. Among people deceased in 1987, Morton Feldman ranks 91. Before him are Lorne Greene, J. P. Guilford, Konstantinos Tsatsos, Alfred Bester, Alejandro Scopelli, and Yves Allégret. After him are Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Renato Guttuso, Zeca Afonso, Mary Astor, R. Budd Dwyer, and Claudio Villa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Morton Feldman ranks 2,869 out of 20,380. Before him are Mabel Normand (1892), Robert Ressler (1937), Lizzie Magie (1866), Charles Bachman (1924), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Harold Bloom (1930). After him are William Steig (1907), James P. Allison (1948), Howard Zinn (1922), Andre Braugher (1962), Gloria Leonard (1940), and Michael Dukakis (1933).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Morton Feldman ranks 33. Before him are Michael Kamen (1948), Paul Bowles (1910), George Antheil (1900), Ernest Guiraud (1837), Stephen Sondheim (1930), and Basil Poledouris (1945). After him are Stephen Foster (1826), Alfred Newman (1900), Sun Ra (1914), Alex North (1910), Amy Beach (1867), and Jerome Kern (1885).

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