Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers (eBook)

Balint Andras Varga (Autor)

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2011
352 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd (Verlag)
9781580468091 (ISBN)

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Master interviewer Balint Andras Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words.Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences or from, say, the natural world? What influences, past and present, have influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style, and when does this degenerate into self-repetition? These are questions about which some of the most important composers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century often have quite strong feelings--but have seldom been asked. In this pathbreaking book, Balint Andras Varga puts these three questions to such renowned composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Alberto Ginastera, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Gyorgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, and Iannis Xenakis. Varga's sensitive English renderings capture the subtleties of their sometimes confident, sometimes hesitant, answers. All statements from English-speaking composers -- such as Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, andSir Michael Tippett -- consist of the composers' own carefully chosen words. Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers is vital reading for anybody interested in the current state of music and the arts. TheHungarian music publisher Balint Andras Varga has spent nearly forty years working for and with composers. He has published several books, including extensive interviews with Lutoslawski, Berio, and Xenakis. His previous book forthe University of Rochester Press is Gyorgy Kurtag: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.

Inhalt

Milton Babbitt
Sándor Balassa
Luciano Berio
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Pierre Boulez
Attila Bozay
Earle Brown
Sylvano Bussotti
John Cage
Elliott Carter
Friedrich Cerha
George Crumb
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Edison Denisov
Henri Dutilleux
Péter Eötvös
Morton Feldman
Lukas Foss
Alberto Ginastera
Karel Goeyvaerts
Sofia Gubaidulina
Georg Friedrich Haas
Hans Werner Henze
Klaus Huber
Zoltán Jeney
Mauricio Kagel
Georg Katzer
Ernst Krenek
Ladislav Kupkovic
György Kurtág
Helmut Lachenmann
György Ligeti
Witold Lutoslawski
François-Bernard Mâche
Michio Mamiya
Giacomo Manzoni
Paul Méfano
András Mihály
Tristan Murail
Marlos Nobre
Luigi Nono
Krzysztof Penderecki
Goffredo Petrassi
Emil Petrovics
Henri Pousseur
Steve Reich
Wolfgang Rihm
Peter Ruzicka
László Sáry
Pierre Schaeffer
Dieter Schnebel
Alfred Schnittke
Gunther Schuller
Johannes Maria Staud
Karlheinz Stockhausen
András Szollosy
Toru Takemitsu
Dimitri Terzakis
Sir Michael Tippett
László Vidovszky
Wladimir Vogel
Gerhard Wimberger
Christian Wolff
Iannis Xenakis

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Zusatzinfo: 1 colour, 40 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: music • top modern composers, best composers of our time, best modern composers
• ISBN-13: 9781580468091 / 9781580468091