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Cornelius Cardew was known in for his avant-garde compositions and also as a political composer. British composer; (1936-1981). He was Karlheinz Stockhausen's assistant (1958-60), founder of the Scratch Orchestra (1966-1971), a member of the Peoples Liberation Music group, and founder member of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) in 1979. Killed in 1981 by a hit and run driver in Leyton, East London.
http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/cardew.html
Short biography from CD liner notes "Piano Music".
http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/Nov99/cardew.htm
Concert review.
http://www.musicnow.co.uk/scratch.html
Members of the orchestra compiled by Music Now.
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