Henry Cowell
March 11, 1897, Menlo Park, California – December 10, 1965, Shady, New York
Henry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario.
Henry Cowell – Symphony No. 5 (1948)
Cowell demonstrated precocious musical talent and began playing the violin at the age of five. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cowell toured widely in North America and Europe as a pianist, playing his own experimental works, seminal explorations of atonality, polytonality, polyrhythms, and non-Western modes. He made such an impression with his tone cluster technique that Béla Bartók requested his permission to adopt it…
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Symphony No.11, Seven Rituals of Music (1954)
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