Outsider music: classics of American classical music (42) - Conlon Nancarrow - String Quartet No.3 (1987) Conlon Nancarrow - String Quartet No. 3 Another eccentric composer, famous and appreciated by other great composers (Ligeti was an admirer) for his works, especially those for player piano. He had an adventurous life: he fled to Mexico due to his affiliation with the Communist Party; they would have brought him back in exchange for an official repentance, and he refused, so back to Mexico. Nevertheless, he continued to compose in relative silence, with critics rediscovering him only in the 1980s. A remarkable figure.