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John Cage vinyl records

5 albums with 68 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

John Milton Cage, Jr.. An American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist (born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA - died August 12, 1992, New York City, New York, USA). He is best known and lauded as a pioneer of post-war avant-garde composition. He left Pomona College early to travel in Europe (1930-31), then studied with in New York (1933-4) and in Los Angeles: his first published compositions, in a rigorous atonal system of his own, date from this period. In 1937 he moved to Seattle to work as a dance accompanist, and there in 1938 he founded a percussion orchestra; his music now concerned with filling units of time with ostinatos (First Construction in Metal, 1939).