Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He studied piano, cello and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and from 1958 to 1960 worked as assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne. He championed John Cage and Morton Feldman, and joined the improvising group AMM in 1966. His graphic score Treatise (1963-67) runs to 193 pages, and he also wrote The Great Learning. In 1968 he co-founded the Scratch Orchestra with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons. In the 1970s he rejected the avant-garde and joined a Marxist-Leninist party. He died in a hit-and-run accident in London.
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He studied piano, cello and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and from 1958 to 1960 worked as assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne. He championed John Cage and Morton Feldman, and joined the improvising group AMM in 1966. His graphic score Treatise (1963-67) runs to 193 pages, and he also wrote The Great Learning. In 1968 he co-founded the Scratch Orchestra with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons. In the 1970s he rejected the avant-garde and joined a Marxist-Leninist party. He died in a hit-and-run accident in London.
