- The People United Will Never Be Defeated! · 1990
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated! · 1990
- North American Ballads & Squares · 1989
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated! · 1990
- Group 180 · 1983
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated! · 1990
- North American Ballads & Squares · 1989
- MEV 40 (1967-2007) · 2008
- Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises · 2006
- Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises · 2006
- Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises · 2006
- Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises · 2006
- Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises · 2006
- 2022
- 2021
Compilations
About Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Rzewski was among the major figures of the American musical avant-garde to emerge in the 1960s, and he was highly influential as a composer and performer. Rzewski's music helped define postwar American new music. He consistently gave exuberant boyish pleasures of a composer like Copland within the rigorously experimental framework of a composer like Cage. Often unapologetically tonal and fun, Rzewski's music cuts right through the frequent churlishness of avant-garde music. He was also an important educator. Two of his most popular pieces are Attica, which includes the recitation of a prison letter, and The People United Will Never Be Defeated, a virtuosic set of piano variations. In 2016, Rzewski wrote Songs of Insurrection, a sequel to The People United Will Never Be Defeated, which was heard on a recording by Thomas Kotcheff in 2021. That year, the Imani Winds featured Rzewski's Sometimes on its album Bruits.
- HOMETOWN
- Westfield, MA, United States
- BORN
- April 13, 1938
- GENRE
- Classical