John Eaton (composer)
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John Eaton, (30 March 1935 – ) is an American composer. He is a prominent composer of microtonal music, and worked with Robert Moog in developing several types of synthesizers. He innovated a compositional genre called pocket opera, operas scored for a small cast of vocalists and a chamber group.
His most famous opera is the Cry of Clytaemnestra (1980), a re-telling of some of the events surrounding the Trojan War from the perspective of Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra, which has been hailed as the first feminist opera.
Eaton's opera, The Tempest was performed at the Santa Fe Opera in 1985.
External links
- [Schirmer Music biography of John Eaton]
- [Boston Musica Viva biography of John Eaton]
- [Living Composers Project entry for John Eaton]
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