Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) was an English avant-garde composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He is notable for Treatise, a purely psychologically interpreted score. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.