Bruno Maderna was one of the leading composers and conductors on the post-War avant-garde music scene.

He was an authentic child prodigy who started to study music at the age of four. At seven, under the patronage of the Princess Edmond de Polignac he performed as a conductor and violinist under the name "Brunetto."

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American experimental music's foremost performer, pianist David Tudor remains as inextricably linked to many of the most groundbreaking pieces in the modern canon as their respective composers; long John Cage's most intimate associate, he also delivered virtuoso early performances of landmark works by Pierre Boulez, Earle Brown, Sylvano... [+] Read More

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Studied with Roslyn Brogue Henning and Schillinger Method. Pianist. Innovative graphic notational methods influenced by Schillinger and Calder. Collaborated with John Cage on the Project for Music for Magnetic Tape (1952-55). Other compositions include: Music for "Tender Buttons" for speaker, flute, horn, and harp (1953), Indices for chamber... [+] Read More

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A major force in the development of postwar-era experimental music, avant-garde composer and theorist Luciano Berio brought a sense of lyricism and personal expression to even the most complex techniques of electronic and aleatoric music, his modernist approach lending itself to a variety of idioms while incorporating resources including folk... [+] Read More

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Italian composer in the 12-tone or atonal style, whose work encompasses many forms, including opera and electronic music. Many fundamental works by Nono are out of print -- "y su sangre ya viene cantando (And Even Your Blood Comes Singing)," for flute, strings, and percussion, from Epitaffio per Garcia Lorca ("Epitaph for Garcia Lorca," RCA... [+] Read More

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After initially studying mathematics, Boulez entered the Paris Conservatoire as a student in theory and harmony (he failed the pianists' entrance examination). His principal teacher was Messiaen, and he also studied counterpoint privately with Andrée Vaurabourg. According to Boulez, composition is a form of aesthetic research and should be... [+] Read More

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The father of musique concrète, French composer Pierre Schaeffer was among the most visionary artists of the postwar era; through the creation of abstract sound mosaics divorced from conventional musical theory, he pioneered a sonic revolution which continues to resonate across the contemporary cultural landscape, most deeply in the grooves of... [+] Read More

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Producing a slim but groundbreaking body of work possessed of a truly musical sensibility typically lacking from the tape constructions of his contemporaries, Tod Dockstader was among America's foremost composers of musique concrète, creating electronic soundscapes informed by genuine drama and mystery. Born May 22, 1932 in St. Paul, Minnesota,... [+] Read More

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