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Stephen Michael Steve Reich is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Steve Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons.
Steve Reich's innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, as on the early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out, and the use of simple, audible processes, as on Pendulum Music and Four Organs .
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Steve Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably Different Trains .
Steve Reich was given piano lessons as a child and describes growing up with the "middle-class favorites", having no exposure to music written before 1750 or after 1900.