| LC control no. | n 88674936 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML410.R99 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Rzewski, Frederic |
| Variant(s) | Rzewski, Fredric |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Musica Elettronica Viva |
| Other standard no. | Q1346849 0000000114422704 39351454 240564 595d5300-fed7-4f69-ae33-4f2a6d6ed6ee f67b58ce-2241-4414-aef4-8a519c6d6f4b mn0000683647 177581 54db1dd94ece4da88f8e63714e452a4b nm3464896 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Rome (Italy) Liège (Belgium) |
| Located | Brussels (Belgium) |
| Birth date | 1938-04-13 |
| Death date | 2021-06-26 |
| Place of birth | Westfield (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Montiano (Tuscany, Italy) |
| Field of activity | Composition (Music) Avant-garde (Music) |
| Affiliation | Conservatoire royal de musique de Liège Hochschule der Künste Berlin Musica Elettronica Viva |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Pianists Music teachers University and college faculty members Composition teachers (Music) |
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| Found in | His Antigone-Legend [SR] p1987: label (Frederic Rzewski; piano) container (b. 1938) LC data base, 11/16/88 (hdg.: Rzewski, Frederic) Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians, c1997 (Rzewski, Frederic (Anthony); b. Apr. 13, 1938, Westfield, Mass.; American pianist, teacher and composer) Kim, Sujin. Understanding Rzewski's North American ballads, 2009: page ii (Frederic Rzewski (b.1938)) page 4 (born in Massachusetts in 1938 to Polish parents of Jewish descent; in 1966 founded Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) in Rome) page 9 (has taught at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Hochschule der Kunste in West Berlin, and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in the Netherlands; currently lives in Brussels, where he retired from a post as Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique at Liège) Blah!, 2009: title page (Fredric Rzewski) page 1 (Frederic Rzewski) New York times online, viewed June 29, 2021 (obituary dated June 27, 2021: Frederic Rzewski; Frederic Anthony Rzewski; born April 13, 1938, in Westfield, Mass.; died Saturday [June 26] at his home in Montiano, Italy, at age 83; politically-committed composer and pianist; co-founder of the Musica Elettronica Viva collective in Rome) <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/arts/music/frederic-rzewski-dead.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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