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Also Known As chance music • indeterminism

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Key People

Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
John Cage
John Cage
American composer
Nono
Luigi Nono
Italian composer
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio
Italian composer
Foss, 1969
Lukas Foss
American composer
Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer
Henri Pousseur.
Henri Pousseur
Belgian composer
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer

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