Composer of very long pieces, to be played "as soft as possible", to which end he created his own systems of notation. A close associate of John Cage, they met in 1950 at an Anton Webern concert, where they were among the only people not hissing.
[1] Alex Ross, quoting Feldman's own writings, "American Sublime: Morton Feldman's Mysterious Musical Landscapes", The New Yorker, 19 June 2006.
Wife: Barbara Monk (composer, m. Jun-1987)
Administrator: Dean, New York Studio School (1969-73)
Professor: Edgard Varèse Professor, Music, State University of New York at Buffalo (1973-87)
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman (2000, anthology, ed. B.H. Friedman, afterword by Frank O'Hara)
Morton Feldman Essays (1985, essays, ed. Walter Zimmermann)
Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987 (2006, lectures, ed. Chris Villars)
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