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John Cage Biography

John Milton Cage (September 5, - August 12, ) was an experimental music composer and writer, possibly best known (some might say notorious) for his piece 4&#; 33&#;, often described (somewhat erroneously) as "four and a half minutes of silence." He was an early writer of aleatoric music (music where some elements are left to chance), used instruments in non-standard ways and was an electronic music pioneer.

Cage was born in Los Angeles. His father was a somewhat eccentric inventor of largely useless devices who told him "that if someone says 'can't' that shows you what to do." Cage described his mother as a woman with "a sense of society" who was "never happy." It was not obvious from his early life that he would become a composer; he was born into a Episcopalian family, and his paternal grandfather regarded the violin as the "instrument of the devil".

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Cage himself planned to become a minister at an early age and later a writer.

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