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David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. After playing the U.S. premiere of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950,
David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. After playing the U.S. premiere of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950, he premiered works by New York School composers including Morton Feldman and especially John Cage written for him; Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated a work to him, reflecting his similar degree of integration with the Darmstadt School. He turned to composing, including many projects for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. After Cage’s death in 1992, he succeeded him as music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1926. Tudor began his career as an organist, The two worked closely together on many of Cage’s works for piano and electroacoustic works, including for the Smithsonian Folkways album Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music (1959). Tudor also performs on several recordings of Cage’s music, including the Mainstream record of Cartridge Music, the recording on Columbia Records of Variations II, and the two Everest records of Variations IV. Tudor taught at the Darmstäd
- Era
- Post-War
- Lived
- 1926–1996
- From
- United States
- Born in
- Philadelphia · died New York City
- Known as
- pianist, composer, organist, pedagogue
- Instruments
- piano, pipe organ, synthesizer
- Genres
- classical music, electronic music, experimental music, avant-garde music, contemporary classical music