Steve Reich is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts. Music for…
Steve Reich is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts. Music for…
Whatever you think about works such as the tragically popular (in the sense of its baleful use at the most famous royal funeral of recent memory) Song for Athene, or his…
He is famous for creating the “Third Viennese School” and spreading contemporary classical music.A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music in Vienna, he later studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and Darmstadt. In…