With the kind permission of Mode and Edition Peters, I've posted "Music for Marcel Duchamp," from one of Mode's loveliest releases, the complete Cage shorter works for prepared piano.
The pianist Pedja Muzijevic accomplishes an equally impressive feat in "Sonatas & Other Interludes" (Albany), an odd but compelling album that alternates short works for prepared piano by John Cage with compositions by Liszt, Schumann, and W. F. Bach.
IN the 1930's and early 40's, before John Cage made his pioneering explorations of random procedures in composition, before he wrote his captivating works for prepared piano (inserting screws and glass pieces into the strings to create an exotically new sound resource), before he conceived of compositions for a stageful of radios turned on and off, he composed charming and mercurial piano pieces.
He had first heard of John Cage's pioneering works for prepared piano whilst still a student and "loved it".
Significantly more complex than his other works for prepared piano, Sonatas and Interludes is generally recognized as one of Cage's finest achievements.
Cage had frequently used the nested proportions technique and its variations before, most notably in First Construction (in Metal) (1939), which was the first piece to use it, and numerous dance-related works for prepared piano.
The work is for prepared piano, a creation of Cage's.
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But as I've become more familiar with Cage's wonderfully inventive mind, I've fallen under the spell of his ability to sculpt in sound in works such as the ingenious pieces for prepared piano and the percussive and metallic Constructions.
