Three Questions for Sixty-five ComposersUniversity 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. |
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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 |
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