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Cathy Berberian

Cathy Berberian is credited on 215 releases across 46 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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215

Pressings credited

46

Albums

7

Decades active

2

In collections

Biography

Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an American mezzo-soprano and composer based in Italy. She worked closely with many contemporary avant-garde music composers, including Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp zu Eulenburg and others. As a recital curator, she presented several vocal genres in a classical context, including arrangements of songs by the Beatles by Louis Andriessen as well as folk songs from several countries and cultures. As a composer, she wrote Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia), and Morsicat(h)y (1969), a composition for keyboard (with the right hand only) based on Morse code.

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Credited work

215 releases · 46 albums · active 1960–2023

  • Performance · 199
  • Other credits · 96
  • Engineering · 4

Studios: Studio Angelicum · Casino Zögernitz, Vienna · Palais Rasumowsky, Vienna · Südwest-Tonstudio Stuttgart

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