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Originally Posted by Gregor XIII
He is definitely classical. Trying to break away from classical tradition is in no way difficult. Blues-based music did that all along. To me it seemed more as if Cage wanted to transform the classical world. He didn't move away from it - as most of the audience did... - but tried to change it.
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Blues is closer to the classical he was trying to transform than his biggest contribution 'Chance' was. Blues is still precomposed chord based music off of a ruleset, as is Classical. Blues may be more raw, and simple, but you can still fit it on regular note paper. Where as Chance isn't composed at all.
SOME John Cage might be considered 'classical'. However, due to the vast experimentation of his work, and having him present things like people wandering around in a building randomly tuning radios as music, makes it difficult to classify him in any category but Avant-Garde.