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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nonesuch_records_logo.png]]
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3	Nonesuch Records is an American record label. It was founded in 1964 by Creator/ElektraRecords head Jac Holzman, who used the imprint as a budget label that focused on ClassicalMusic. It became part of what is now Creator/WarnerMusicGroup when the company bought Elektra in 1970. Today, Nonesuch is distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, and releases a variety of different artists and genres.
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5	The label primarily focuses on 20th century classical music, Americana, folk rock, world music, and related genres. One of its earliest major releases was ''Time's Encomium'' by Charles Wuorinen, which in 1969 became the first electronic composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In the 1970s and '80s, the label made a name for itself by releasing avant-garde classical and experimental music by artists such as the Kronos Quartet, Music/JohnZorn, Steve Reich, and Music/PhilipGlass. The label began moving towards roots music in the late 1990s, when it began releasing albums by artists such as Emmylou Harris, k.d. lang, and the soundtrack for the acclaimed documentary ''Music/BuenaVistaSocialClub''. This culminated with the 2002 release of ''Music/YankeeHotelFoxtrot'', the critically acclaimed fourth album by indie rock band Music/{{Wilco}}, which became one of the best-selling albums in the label's catalog and made Wilco into the label's flagship artist. Nonesuch had subsequent success with Music/TheBlackKeys, whose albums ''Brothers'' and ''El Camino'' are the label's joint-best-selling albums.
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8	!!Notable Nonesuch Records artists with Website/TvTropes pages:
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10	[[index]]
11	* Music/LaurieAnderson
12	* Music/LeonardBernstein
13	* Music/{{Bjork}}
14	* Music/BillyBragg
15	* Music/TheBlackKeys
16	* Music/MichelleBranch
17	* Music/BuenaVistaSocialClub
18	* Creator/KenBurns
19	* Music/DavidByrne[[note]]In partnership with Todo Mundo since 2010.[[/note]]
20	* Music/JohnCage
21	* Music/BrianEno
22	* Music/BillEvans
23	* Music/FatboySlim
24	* Music/FleetFoxes
25	* Music/BenFolds
26	* Music/GeorgeGershwin
27	* Music/PhilipGlass
28	* Creator/AudraMcDonald
29	* Music/PatMetheny
30	* Music/RandyNewman
31	* Creator/MandyPatinkin
32	* [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]]
33	* Music/AllenToussaint
34	* Music/{{Wilco}}
35	* Music/BrianWilson
36	* Music/JohnZorn
37	[[/index]]

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