Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversityJuilliard SchoolMills College at Northeastern University
- Awards
- 🏆 Praemium Imperiale🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Music🏆 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award🏆 Nemmers Prize in Music Composition
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1936
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