Sheet Music for Instruments

This is a reduction of a chamber work that Cage did for rehearsal and occasional performance with Cunningham Company. It was discovered by Walter Zimmerman in the Cage Collection at the New York Publi...

Charming melodies capture the style of the early 20th Century dances, which are updated with mid-20th Century harmonies (including dramatic chromaticisms, and passages reminiscent of Leonard Bernsteri...

'The recently re-discovered 'Chess Pieces' by John Cage is a work unique to Cage's œuvre and indeed to twentieth-century music and art. In 1944, Cage created the painting, 'Chess Pieces', specifically...

Commissioned by the Gilmore Festival and premiered by Gilbert Kalish, this work includes J.S. Bach's original aria and 12 new variations by Del Tredici, Foss, Hersch, Bolcom, Sheng, Higdon, Gothoni, C...

In the early 1940s, John Cage was on the faculty of Mills College (in Oakland, California). While there, he wrote music to accompany the graduation theses of graduate dance students. The manuscripts f...

'The Theme and Variations is purely the work of a man in love, and it was inspired by my fiancée Cathy Fuller, my true soulmate, who fascinates me more with each passing day. As a matter of fact, the...

'In 1950-51 John Cage composed seven Haiku for piano. The manuscripts are extremely sketchy but can be deciphered, with only a few minor rhythmic details open to speculation. In contrast to the famili...

Commissioned by the Gilmore Foundation, for pianist Natasha Paremski. The Theme comes from the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony Number 4.

Chaconne for piano solo, commissioned by Hartmut Schock for his daughter ElisabethMarc-André Hamelin is an acclaimed recitalist and soloist who has performed with many of the world's leading orchestra...