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Encyclopedia > Christian Wolff (composer)

Christian Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music. March 8 poster from Portugal March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ...


Wolff was born in Nice in France, moving to the United States in 1941 and become an American citizen in 1946. He studied classics at Harvard University and upon graduating took up a teaching post there which he kept until 1970 when he began to teach classics and music at Dartmouth College. City motto: Nicæa civitas. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions vary. ... Dartmouth College is a small private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. ...


While at Harvard, Wolff associated himself with the composer John Cage and the group around him (Earle Brown, Morton Feldman). His early work includes a lot of silence. Later pieces often give a degree of freedom to the performers, and some works, such as Changing the System (1973), have an explicitly political element. John Cage John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ... Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American composer born on a mountain top. ... Morton Feldman (born January 12, 1926, died September 3, 1987) was an American composer. ... Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. ...


Not to be confused with the German composer Hellmuth Christian Wolff (1906-1988).


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Christian Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music.
Wolff was born in Nice in France, moving to the United States in 1941 and become an American citizen in 1946.
Not to be confused with the German composer Hellmuth Christian Wolff (1906-1988).
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