Morton Feldman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Morton Feldman

American avant-garde composer

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 03-Sep-1987

Profession: composer, musician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate 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; recurring asymmetric patterns.
His later works, after 1977, also begin to explore extremes of duration.