List of Compositions By John Cage - Lost Works

Lost Works

This section lists works for which the location of manuscript is unknown, or which possibly were not notated.

  • Untitled composition, 1931
  • Etudes, for piano (1932, possibly same as the untitled composition of 1931)
  • Duet, for two flutes (1934)
  • Music for Xenia, for piano (1934)
  • Allemande for clarinet (1934)
  • String Quartet (1936)
  • Music for an Aquatic Ballet (1938)
  • 25 Ballets in 1 act for a solo dancer (1939)
  • Ho to AA, for voice and piano (1939)
  • America was promises, for voice and piano 4 hands (1940)
  • Four songs of the moment, for piano (1940)
  • Prelude to Flight, for piano? (1940)
  • Spiritual, for piano (1940)
  • Opening dance, for piano (1942)
  • Shimmera, for prepared piano (1942)
  • Lidice, for prepared piano (1943)
  • The Feast, for piano (1945)
  • Thin Cry, for piano (1945)
  • Foreboding, for piano (1946)
  • Orestes, for piano? (1948)
  • First Week of June (1970)
  • Untitled (work for Joao Miró), for piano (1970)
  • 52/3 (1972)
  • Music for "Westbeth", for piano? (1974)
  • Pools, for a single performer (1978, based on Inlets)
  • Seventeen, (1992, possibly similar to Sixteen or does not exist)
  • Otte, for violin (1992, spurious, probably not by Cage or does not exist)

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