Cornelius Cardew

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Born: 7 May 1936, Winchcombe (England)
Died: 13 December 1981, London (England)

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[details ←] Volo Solo
[details ←] Scratch Music Oboe,
[details ←] Bun No.2 Piano, Bass, Percussion, Clarinet, Organ, Bassoon, Piccolo, English Horn,
[details ←] February Pieces (and Octet 61) Piano,
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[details ←] Treatise
[details ←] Treatise Handbook orchestra,

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Choirboy at Canterbury Cathedral. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London (1953-7) and in Cologne (1957-8); assistant to Stockhausen in the scoring of the latter’s ‘Carre’. From 1961 in London worked as a graphic artist, whence the extraordinary graphic score Treatise. Some study with Goffredo Petrassi in Italy in the early 1960s. Appeared regularly as a performer of works by Stockhausen, Feldman, Cage, Wolff etc. and collaborated extensively with the pianist John Tilbury. Became involved in improvisation (with the jazz-derived AMM Ensemble) and founded the Scratch Orchestra (of trained and untrained players) in 1969. From 1971 he embraced Maoist concepts of politically-committed socialist art; published the book ‘Stockhausen serves Imperialism’ (1974); repudiated indeterminacy, turned to a more conventional (or, less elitist) musical vocabularty and wrote works implicitly or explicitly supportive of the Irish liberation struggle. He was killed when run down by a car; the circumstances have never been properly investigated.

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