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Frederic Rzewski

p, *1938 US, Westfield, Massachusetts
Musician / Composer of Classical and Electronic
A.k.a. Frederic Anthony Rzewski

Pianist and composer born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts, United States. He studied under Randall Thompson, Walter Piston, Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt at Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton. He is a founding member of Musica Elettronica Viva.

     
Instruments
  • Piano
  • Vocals
  • Electric piano
Genres
  • Classical
  • Electronic
  • Jazz
Plays With
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
Laboratorio Della Quercia
Musica Elettronica Viva
Popular Tracks   
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Thema. With determination on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Thema: Tempo I on Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated & 4 Hands by Frederic Rzewski, Ursula Oppens & Jerome Lowenthal
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Thema) on American Dissident by Frederic Rzewski & Michael Noble
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Var. 1 - Weaving, delicate but firm on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Var. 13 on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Var. 3 - Slightly slower, with expressive nuances on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Var. 2 - With firmness on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Var. 4 - Marcato, with determination on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Var. 5 - Dreamlike, frozen, a little slower, Tempo on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!: Thema. Tempo I on The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Frederic Rzewski & Igor Levit

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Band Members
Discography



Title Artist Year Type
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Frederic Rzewski - Daan Vandewalle2017Album
Piano Music - Fantasia Second Hand, or Alone at Last De ProfundisFrederic Rzewski, Robert Satterlee2014Album
Four Pieces • Hard Cuts • The Housewives' LamentFrederic Rzewski, Ralph van Raat, Lunapark • Arnold Marinissen2014Album
Robert Satterlee, PianoRobert Satterlee, Frederic Rzewski, William Albright2014Album
The People United Will Never Be DefeatedFrederic Rzewski2014Album
8 DuosChristian Wolff - Robyn Schulkowsky, Frederic Rzewski, Kim Kashkashian, Joey Baron, Reinhold Friedrich, Rohan de Saram2013Album
El Once: Chile 11. September 1973Frederic Rzewski, Stefan Litwin2013Album
Axelsson Plays Xenakis, Wolff, Olofsson, Rzewski, CrestaJonny Axelsson Plays Iannis Xenakis, Christian Wolff, Kent Olofsson, Frederic Rzewski, Gianvincenzo Cresta2012Album
The People United Will Never Be DefeatedFrederic Rzewski - Kai Schumacher2009Album
Artist Profile SeriesRalph van Raat, John Adams / John Tavener / Magnus Lindberg / Frederic Rzewski2009Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Frederic Rzewski2008Album
Multiplicities: '38 - Music By Composers Born In 1938Blair McMillen Wih Sachiko Kato / John Corigliano, Joan Tower, Frederic Rzewski, Charles Wuorinen, John Harbison, William Bolcom2008Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Ralph van Raat, Frederic Rzewski2008Album
Piano Works: Four Pieces & Phrygian GatesFrederic Rzewski & John Adams - Emanuele Arciuli2006Album
Ballads & FantasiesDavid Jalbert / John Corigliano & Frederic Rzewski2003Album
Which Side Are You On?Lisa Moore Plays Frederic Rzewski2003Album
Main DragFrederic Rzewski2003Album
Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works, 1975-1999Frederic Rzewski2002Album
We Sing For The Future!Cornelius Cardew - Frederic Rzewski2001Album
Americans! - XXth Century Piano Music Of American ComposersEmanuele Arciuli, John Adams - Samuel Barber - George Crumb - Joel Hoffman - John Cage - Frederic Rzewski2000Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Frederic Rzewski - Marc-André Hamelin1999Album
Night Crossing (Works For One And Two Pianos)Frederic Rzewski With Ursula Oppens1997Album
New Works By Frederic RzewskiFrederic Rzewski1997Album
PianoOrtwin Stürmer - Eric Tanguy · Horatiu Radulescu · Frederic Rzewski · Rodney Sharman · James Dillon1997Album
De Profundis / Piano Piece No IV / Piano Sonata / Winnsboro Cotton Mill BluesFrederic Rzewski, Anthony De Mare1995Album
BumpsFrederic Rzewski1995Album
PacketSteve Lacy, Irene Aebi, Frederic Rzewski1995Album
A DecadeZeitgeist Plays Frederic Rzewski1994Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Frederic Rzewski / Stephen Drury1994Album
De ProfundisFrederic Rzewski1994Album
Figure 88Kathleen Supové / Randall Woolf, Lukas Foss, David Lang, Marti Epstein, Frederic Rzewski1993Album
Capriccio HassidicoMarc-Henri Cykiert - Frederic Rzewski / Michael Guttman1991Album
North American Ballads & SquaresFrederic Rzewski1991Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Frederic Rzewski1990Album
L'InstructionFrederic Rzewski1989Album
Antigone - LegendFrederic Rzewski1987Album
For Cornelius / Era OraAlvin Curran - Ursula Oppens And Frederic Rzewski1986Album
UntitledGroup 180 - Steve Reich / Frederic Rzewski / László Melis / Tibor Szemző1983Album
Four Pieces, Ballad No. 3 "Which Side Are You On?"Frederic Rzewski1980Album
Song And Dance / The Flower-Fed BuffaloesFrederic Rzewski / John Harbison - Speculum Musicae With David Evitts, The Emmanuel Choir Of Boston1979Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (36 Variations On A Chilean Song)Frederic Rzewski - Ursula Oppens1978Album
ThreadsSteve Lacy & Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski1977Album
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!Frederic Rzewski1977Album
No Place To Go But Around / P-JOK S-D •• 4 4 / Third SonataFrederic Rzewski - Anthony Braxton, Hanns Eisler1976Album
New American Music Volume 3Talib Rasul Hakim / William Bolcom / Howard Swanson / Frederic Rzewski1975Album
Attica / Coming Together / Les Moutons De PanurgeFrederic Rzewski1974Album
Alle Vittime Di HiroshimaBruno Maderna, Frederic Rzewski, Severino Gazzelloni1974Album
Brussels 1977Steve Lacy And Frederic RzewskiAlbum
La Musica NuovaKarlheinz Stockhausen / Earle Brown / Krzysztof Penderecki / Henri Pousseur / Roman Haubenstock-Ramati / Bruno Maderna / Luigi Nono / Kazuo Fukushima / Luciano Berio / Hans-Ulrich Lehmann - Severino Gazzelloni / Lothar Faber / Frederic Rzewski / Soloists Of The Rome Symphony OrchestraAlbum
The New MusicKarlheinz Stockhausen / Henri Pousseur / Bruno Maderna / Luigi Nono / Luciano Berio / Severino Gazzelloni / Frederic RzewskiAlbum
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