"Which avant-garde US composer wrote the piece 4'33""?"
Avant-garde music Webern in 1945, but others disagree. For example, Ryan Minor writes that this period began with the work of Richard Wagner, whereas Edward Lowinsky cites Josquin des Prez. The term may also be used to refer to any post-1945 tendency of modernist music not definable as experimental music, though sometimes including a type of experimental music characterized by the rejection of tonality. A commonly cited example of avant-garde music is John Cage's "4'33"" (1952), a piece which instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during its entire duration. Although some modernist music is also avant-garde, a distinction can be
The Avant-Garde The Avant-Garde The Avant-Garde was an American psychedelic pop group formed by Chuck Woolery and Elkin "Bubba" Fowler in 1967. They released three singles on Columbia Records in 1967 and 1968, backed by different session musicians on each release: "Yellow Beads", "Naturally Stoned" (which hit No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in mid-1968), and "Fly with Me!" Despite the success of "Naturally Stoned", the group disbanded after "Fly with Me!" and never released a full album. After The Avant-Garde disbanded, Fowler went on to a career as a folk singer. Columbia released his LP "And Then Came Bubba"