MORTON FELDMAN:1ST LP JOHN CAGE-DAVID TUDOR-STOCKHAUSEN

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MORTON FELDMAN

 NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC 2 LP

Columbia Masterworks 5403

Mega rare 50's original 1st pressing of Morton Feldman's debut. Abstract, indeterminate music characterized by notational innovations.

Some info on the release:  Necessary experimental / avant garde vinyl on Columbia Masterworks label from one of 20th Century's most important composers, Morton Feldman, this was his debut record released back in 1960. This is the sought-after original 1st pressing of Morton Feldman's great debut, later re-released on Columbia Music of our time series and entitled "The Early Years"...but here you've got the ultra-rare original...scarcely shows up for sale!!

Morton Feldman was born in New York on January 12, 1926. At the age of twelve he studied piano with Madame Maurina-Press, who had been a pupil of Busoni, and it was her who instilled in Feldman a vibrant musicality. At the time he was composing short Scriabin-esque pieces, until in 1941 he began to study composition with Wallingford Riegger. Three years later Stefan Wolpe became his teacher, though they spent much of their time together simply arguing about music. Then in 1949 the most significant meeting up to that time took place—Feldman met John Cage, commencing an artistic association of crucial importance to music in America in the 1950s. Cage was instrumental in encouraging Feldman to have confidence in his instincts, which resulted in totally intuitive compositions. He never worked with any systems that anyone has been able to identify, working from moment to moment, from one sound to the next. His friends during the 1950s in New York included the composers Earle Brown and Christian Wolff; painters Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg; and pianist David Tudor. The painters in particular influenced Feldman to search for his own sound world, one that was more immediate and more physical than had existed before. This resulted in his experimentation with graph notation, "Projection 2" being one of his earliest scores in this idiom. In these scores the players select their notes from within a given register and time structure. Because thee works relied so heavily on improvisation Feldman was not happy with the freedom permitted to the performer, and so abandoned graph notation between 1953 and 1958. However, the precise notation he used instead during this period he found too one dimensional and so returned to the graph with two orchestral works: "Atlantis" (1958) and "Out of Last Pieces" (1960). Soon after these, appeared a series of instrumental works called "Durations", in which the notes to be played are precisely written but the performers, beginning simultaneously, are free to choose their own durations within a given general tempo. Some of his notable students include Mamoru Fujieda, Kyle Gann, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Tom Johnson, Joelle Leandre, Bobby Previte, Elliott Sharp,

The works on this record cover that period and span from 1951 to 1957. The pieces that appear here are : "Pieces for four pianos", "Intersection 3 for piano", "Extensions 4 for 3 pianos", "Two pieces for two pianos", "Projection 4 for violin and piano", "Structures for string quartet", " Extensions 1 for violin and piano", "Three pieces for string quartet". Performers include David Tudor, Russell Sherman, Edwin Hymovitz, Matthew Raimondi, Joseph Rabushka, Walter Trampler, Seymour Barab.

Condition: Vinyl lies in very good condition, looks to have an important number of scratches, which mostly don't sound, playgraded it's vg+ with some crackle in places, while cover lies in a presentable very good+ condition, is really nice for its' age, with some storage wear and split on top right corner.

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