Tudor, David Eugene

Tudor, David Eugene
▪ 1997

      U.S. avant-garde composer and pianist who gained prominence after 1950 as an interpreter of the works of such composers as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and, most notably, John Cage, with whom he collaborated often and whom he succeeded in 1992 as music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain (N.C.) College (b. Jan. 20, 1926—d. Aug. 13, 1996).

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