美国现代派作曲家、钢琴家亨利·考埃尔(Henry Cowell)于1897年出生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山,1965年卒于纽约。作为先锋派音乐家中勇于探索的杰出人物,他早在15岁时就创立了“音簇”(clusters)这一当今被广泛运用的钢琴创作与演奏技巧—演奏者通过下压前臂、手肘或手掌奏出相邻叠加的二度音程。考埃尔也是最早在作品中采用“不确定元素”的作曲家—即作品段落的先后顺序由演奏者自行决定,且每次的顺序可 American modernist composer and pianist Henry Cowell was born in San Francisco, California in 1897 and died in New York in 1965. As a bold, pioneering musician, he pioneered the creation of “clusters”, the most widely used piano production and playing technique as early as age 15, by playing down the forearm, hands Elbow or palm played adjacent superimposed second interval. Cowell is also the first composer to adopt “Uncertain Elements” in his work - the order of his passage is determined by the player himself, and each order may be