Three questions for sixty-five composers

Author(s)

• Varga, Bálint András

Bibliographic Information

Three questions for sixty-five composers

Bálint András Varga

（Eastman studies in music, v. 85）

University of Rochester Press , Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2011

• : hbk

Other Title

3 kérdés, 82 zeneszerző

Note

Includes translations from Hungarian

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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, Gyoergy 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 Gyoergy Kurtag: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.

Table of Contents

Milton Babbitt Sandor 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 Peter Eoetvoes Morton Feldman Lukas Foss Alberto Ginastera Karel Goeyvaerts Sofia Gubaidulina Georg Friedrich Haas Hans Werner Henze Klaus Huber Zoltan Jeney Mauricio Kagel Georg Katzer Ernst Krenek Ladislav Kupkovic Gyoergy Kurtag Helmut Lachenmann Gyoergy Ligeti Witold Lutoslawski Francois-Bernard Mache Michio Mamiya Giacomo Manzoni Paul Mefano Andras Mihaly Tristan Murail Marlos Nobre Luigi Nono Krzysztof Penderecki Goffredo Petrassi Emil Petrovics Henri Pousseur Steve Reich Wolfgang Rihm Peter Ruzicka Laszlo Sary Pierre Schaeffer Dieter Schnebel Alfred Schnittke Gunther Schuller Johannes Maria Staud Karlheinz Stockhausen Andras Szollosy Toru Takemitsu Dimitri Terzakis Sir Michael Tippett Laszlo Vidovszky Wladimir Vogel Gerhard Wimberger Christian Wolff Iannis Xenakis

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Details

• NCID: BB07379058
• ISBN:
  • 9781580463799
• LCCN: 2010045369
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester,Woodbridge
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 333 p., [1] leaf of plate
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML390
  • DC22 : 780.922
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Composers -- Interviews
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27676296