Sixteen



Category: Musical composition
Dated: March 26 and April 20, 1992
Instrumentation: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, piano, 2 percussion players, 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass
Duration:
Premiere and performer(s): ---
Dedicated to: Apparantly written for Manfred Reichert and possibly for the Ensemble 13
Choreography: ---
Published: ---
Manuscript: Sketches: list of time brackets (2 lv. of computer print-out, 1 lf. holograph in pencil - 3 lv.); Parts (typescript with holgraphic annotations - 22+8 p.); Worksheet (holograph in ink - 1 lf.) all in New York Public Library.


Unfinished work. Might be related to Thirteen and Seventeen. Since no manuscripts of Seventeen exist in the New York Public Library, it might be that this composition does not exist as such. Cage mentions Seventeen in Joan Retallack's Musicage. Maybe he meant Sixteen, being a first attempt to write a work for the Ensemble 13, instead of Seventeen.