Three questions for sixty-five composers / Bálint András Varga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varga, Bálint András.

Series:

Eastman studies in music ; v. 85.

Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; [v. 85]

Standardized Title:

3 kérdés, 82 zeneszerző. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Composers--Interviews.

Composers.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011.

Summary:

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, and Sir 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. The Hungarian 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 for the University of Rochester Press is György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages.

Contents:

1 Gilbert Amy 1

2 Milton Babbitt 4

3 Sándor Balassa 7

4 Luciano Berio 12

5 Sir Harrison Birtwistle 16

6 Pierre Boulez 21

7 Attila Bozay 26

8 Earle Brown 33

9 Sylvano Bussotti 38

10 John Cage 40

11 Elliott Carter 42

12 Friedrich Cerha 45

13 George Crumb 49

14 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 54

15 Edison Denisov 59

16 Henri Dutilleux 63

17 Péter Eötvös 69

18 Morton Feldman 76

19 Lukas Foss 90

20 Alberto Ginastera 94

21 Karel Goeyvaerts 96

22 Sofia Gubaidulina 98

23 Georg Friedrich Haas 101

24 Hans Werner Henze 107

25 Klaus Huber 108

26 Zoltán Jeney 115

27 Mauricio Kagel 121

28 Georg Katzer 126

29 Ernst Krenek 131

30 Ladislav Kupkovic 133

31 György Kurtág 136

32 Helmut Lachenmann 146

33 György Ligeti 154

34 Witold Lutoslawski 159

35 François-Bernard Mache 167

36 Michio Mamiya 170

37 Giacomo Manzoni 172

38 Paul Méfano 174

39 András Mihály 177

40 Tristan Murail 182

41 Marios Nobre 185

42 Luigi Nono 188

43 Krzysztof Penderecki 191

44 Goffredo Petrassi 196

45 Emil Petrovics 200

46 Henri Pousseur 205

47 Steve Reich 207

48 Wolfgang Rihm 210

49 Peter Ruzicka 214

50 László Sáry 216

51 Pierre Schaeffer 219

52 Dieter Schnebel 223

53 Alfred Schnittke 225

54 Gunther Schuller 228

55 Johannes Maria Staud 236

56 Karlheinz Stockhausen 240

57 András Szollosy 246

58 Toru Takemitsu 251

59 Dimitri Terzakis 253

60 Sir Michael Tippett 256

61 László Vidovszky 259

62 Wladimir Vogel 263

63 Gerhard Wimberger 266

64 Christian Wolff 269

65 Iannis Xenakis 273.

Notes:

Includes translations from Hungarian.

Series number from CIP data.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580463799

1580463797

OCLC:

657601491