Morton Feldman at 101 | Music and Art: American Abstraction

Born in 1926, maverick composer Morton Feldman continued a legacy of avant-garde composers inspired by art, from Erik Satie to John Cage. Feldman sought to emulate abstract painting by creating music of stillness. In his final work of 1987, the classical form of piano quartet is transformed by Feldman into a delicate contemplation of memory, constructed out of magical harmonies and shifting patterns.