1. biografia

[Amministratore]

Cornelius CARDEW
http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/cardew.html
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire (GB), 1936 – Leyton (GB), 1981

Cardew was a charismatic and controversial figure whose contributions to musical notation, improvisation and political music are widely recognised. In the late 1950s he worked with Stockhausen, and together with John Tibury he was the first to introduce the music of Cage, Feldman, Wolff, Riley and LaMonte Young to British audiences. In the late 1960s he became a focal influence, principally involved in collaborative music-making with a variety of musicians including non-professionals, jazz performers and visual artists.
He was a member of the radical free improvisation group AMM and in 1969, with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton, he founded the Scratch Orchestra. In the early 1970s his concerns with the social aspects of musical activity, so far libertarian and anarchist, took on a more precise political definition with his opposition to US and Soviet imperialism and to British rule in Ireland. He repudiated much of the avant-garde and experimental music with which he had been involved, and wrote songs, piano music and instrumental works in a tonal style, intended to reach a wider audience and to be heard within a political context.