Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers

Voorkant
University Rochester Press, 2011 - 333 pagina's
Master interviewer Bálint András 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, Bálint András Varga puts these three questions to such renowned composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Alberto Ginastera, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, György 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 Bálint András 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 György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.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 Bálint András 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 György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.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 Bálint András 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 György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.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 Bálint András 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 György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.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 Bálint András 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 György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.
 

Inhoudsopgave

Gilbert Amy
1
Milton Babbitt
4
Sándor Balassa
7
Luciano Berio
12
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
16
Pierre Boulez
21
Attila Bozay
26
Earle Brown
33
FrançoisBernard Mâche
167
Michio Mamiya
170
Giacomo Manzoni
172
PaulMéfano
174
András Mihály
177
Tristan Murail
182
Marlos Nobre
185
Luigi Nono
188

Sylvano Bussotti
38
John Cage
40
Elliott Carter
42
Friedrich Cerha
45
George Crumb
49
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
54
Edison Denisov
59
Henri Dutilleux
63
Péter Eötvös
69
Morton Feldman
76
Lukas Foss
90
Alberto Ginastera
94
Karel Goeyvaerts
96
Sofia Gubaidulina
98
Georg Friedrich Haas
101
Hans Werner Henze
107
Klaus Huber
108
ZoltánJeney
115
Mauricio Kagel
121
Georg Katzer
126
Ernst Krenek
131
Ladislav Kupkovic
133
György Kurtág
136
Helmut Lachenmann
146
György Ligeti
154
Witold Lutosławski
159
Krzysztof Penderecki
191
Goffredo Petrassi
196
Emil Petrovics
200
Henri Pousseur
205
Steve Reich
207
Wolfgang Rihm
210
Peter Ruzicka
214
László Sáry
216
Pierre Schaeffer
219
Dieter Schnebel
223
Alfred Schnittke
225
Gunther Schuller
228
Johannes Maria Staud
236
Karlheinz Stockhausen
240
András Szőllősy
246
Tōru Takemitsu
251
Dimitri Terzakis
253
Sir Michael Tippett
256
László Vidovszky
259
Wladimir Vogel
263
Gerhard Wimberger
266
Christian Wolff
269
Iannis Xenakis
273
Encore
283
Index
325
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