Morton Feldman
American composer
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was an important exponent of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration.
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Works
- Piece for Seven Instruments 1960
- Structures for Orchestra 1960
- Dance Suite (for Merle Marsicano)
- Durations III
- For Christian Wolff
- For Samuel Beckett
- Four Songs to e.e. cummings
- Illusions
- Intervals
- Jackson Pollock
- Journey to the End of the Night
- Last Pieces
- Nature Pieces
- Neither
- Palais de Mari
- Piano and String Quartet
- Rothko Chapel
- Sculpture by Lipton
- Something Wild in the City
- Sonatina for Cello and Piano
- String Quartet No. 2
- The O'Hara Songs
- Three Dances
- Three Pieces
- Three Pieces for String Quartet
- Three Voices
- Triadic Memories
- Two Intermissions
- Two Pieces
- Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet
- Two Pieces for Six Instruments
- Two Pieces for Three Pianos
- Two Pieces for Two Pianos
- [Sonata]
Box sets & recent recordings
- Patterns in Motion - The Great Minimalists, Vol. II — Arvo Pärt, Howard Skempton, Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, William Duckworth, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, Graham Fitkin, John Tavener (2026) box set · 78 tracks Spotify
- Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus — Morton Feldman, Marc-André Hamelin (2017) box set · 36 tracks Spotify
- Morton Feldman: Something Wild - Music for Film — Morton Feldman, Ensemble Recherche (2002) box set · 33 tracks Spotify
- Feldman: Complete Works for Multiple Pianos — Morton Feldman, Various Artists (2026) Spotify
- Feldman: Complete Music for Cello & Piano — Morton Feldman, Stephen Marotto, Marilyn Nonken (2024) Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.