Rainer Riehn

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Music Before Revolution

Music Before Revolution is a 1972 quadruple-LP box set released on the Odeon label documenting radical American experimental music from 1939 to 1970, performed by the Ensemble Musica Negativa under conductor Rainer Riehn, with liner notes by critic Heinz-Klaus Metzger and recorded conversations between the composers themselves.

Recordings: John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Heinz Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn

Experimental Music, Indeterminacy, New York School, Graphic Notation, Anarchism, Fluxus Adjacent