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)
Read more about this topic: List Of Compositions By John Cage
Famous quotes containing the words unfinished, incomplete and/or works:
“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,—their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour’s talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night—makes you feel the teemingness of it all.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
—Hannah More (1745–1833)