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China Gates
China Gates is a short piano piece composed by the minimalist American composer John Adams in 1977. Adams wrote this work as a companion piece to his "Phrygian Gates", dating from the same period. "Phrygian Gates" is the longer of the two pieces and uses many of the same techniques as "China Gates", but in terms of structure the two pieces have little in common.
The piece is one of Adams' first mature works, which he wrote for the then 17-year-old
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