George Rochberg, American composer : personal trauma and artistic creativity
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George Rochberg, American composer : personal trauma and artistic creativity
（Eastman studies in music, [v. 154]）
University of Rochester Press, 2019
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Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.
George Rochberg, American Composer, is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and putting into a rich cultural context the career of George Rochberg, widely acknowledged as one of the most prominent musical postmodernists. Drawing from unpublished materials including diaries, letters, sketches, and personal papers, the book traces the impact of two specific personal traumas--Rochberg's service as an infantryman in World War II and the premature death of his son--on his work as a leading composer, college educator, and public intellectual.
The book significantly expands our understanding of Rochberg's creative work by reconstructing and examining the earliest seeds of his aesthetic thinking--which took root while he served in Patton's Third Army--and following their development through his mature compositional period into the final stages of his long career. It argues that Rochberg's military service was a transformative life experience for the young humanist, one that crucially shaped his worldview and influenced his artistic creativity for the next sixty years. As such it reveals personal trauma and aesthetic recovery to be the basis of Rochberg's postwar ideas about humanism, musical quotation, and neotonality.
Amy Lynn Wlodarski is associate professor of music at Dickinson College.
Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Second Lieutenant Aaron G. Rochberg: 1938-48
The Long Road to Ars Combinatoria: 1943-1963
Entropic Suffering and Ars Combinatoria: 1962-1970
Jewish Secularism as Ars Combinatoria: 1954-1987
A Moral Education for the Future: 1948-2005
Afterword: On Trauma, Moral Injuries, and Aesthetic Recoveries
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