List of Compositions By John Cage - Unfinished and Incomplete Works

Unfinished and Incomplete Works

  • Quest, for various objects (first movement) and piano (second movement) (1935, only the second movement survives)
  • Chess Pieces, for piano (1943)
  • Encounter, for piano (1946)
  • Unfinished work for voice (1953)
  • Unfinished work for magnetic tape (c. 1952–53)
  • One13, for one live cello and recordings of three cellos (1992)
  • Sixteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, piano, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass (1992)

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