John Cage Autograph

Current items with a signature of John Cage

These are the most current items with a signature of John Cage that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Cage, John. (1912–1992): John Cage at Stanford - SIGNED POSTER	$750.00
	COMPOSER John Cage autograph musical quotation signed	$385.54
	John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind (Signed) by Brown, Kathan	$89.60

Cage's teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cage's major influences lay in various East and South Asian cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text and decision-making tool, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living".

Cage's best known work is the 1952 composition 4′33″, a piece performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing but be present for the duration specified by the title. The content of the composition is intended to be the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance. The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance. Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces. These include Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48). Read even more about John Cage at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of John Cage

The most expensive item with a signature of John Cage (John Cage signed 3x5 card PSA Authenticated Composer Theorist Writer Artist) was sold in December 2015 for $499.00 while the cheapest item (USA 1973 Music FDC Cover - SIGNED BY American Composer JOHN CAGE -) found a new owner for $7.19 in November 2019. The month with the most items sold (3) was January 2023 with an average selling price of $239.50 for an autographed item of John Cage. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2015 with $499.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $19.50 was May 2023. In average, an autographed item from John Cage is worth $173.00.

Most recently, these items with a signature of John Cage were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	John Cage - American Avant-Garde Composer - Autographed Custom Playing Card	$43.00
	John Cage - American Avant-Garde Composer - Autographed First Day Cover	$19.50
	John Cage - Avant-Garde Music Composer & Artist - Autographed Photo	$360.99
	John Cage - Avant-Garde Music Composer, Artist - Autographed 5x7 Postcard	$29.11
	John CAGE / Autograph signature Signed	$173.00
	John CAGE / Boston Musica Viva at Twenty Program signed by the composer 1988	$270.00
	JOHN CAGE Conversing with Cage (signed by artist) Richard Kostelanetz 1989 Soft	$135.00
	John Cage, Edition Peters, Henmar Press, forward by John Cage, Signed	$100.00
	Other People Think By John Cage, A Project By Alfredo Jaar SIGNED By Jaar	$20.00
	Silence by John Cage Signed First Edition	$239.50