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About Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew was an English contemporary composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental and avant-garde music in favor of activity as a writer and pamphleteer in the Revolutionary Communist Party, declaring he had "discontinued composing in an avant-garde idiom" in his notes to his Piano Album 1973.
Everything about Cornelius Cardew →- Occupation
- composer, music theorist, university teacher, political activist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- May 7, 1936
- Died
- December 13, 1981