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Lutosławski Profile
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Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers
Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.
From Boulanger to Stockhausen
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. Of special interest is an interview with the reclusive composer György Kurtág, here published for the first time in any language. From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a poignant memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about his many interviews with some of these remarkable musicians, and about his employment at the Hungarian state radio station and then in the music-publishing industry, which brought him to, among other places, Vienna, where he now lives [Publisher description].
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaïdulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, György Kurt...
Two Interviews
Dalmonte's questions cover many aspects of contemporary musical life. Berio talks freely about his early childhood through his contact with the Darmstadt serialists and his experiences while teaching and performing in America. There is also a detailed examination of his major instrumental works of the 1960s -- Te Sequenzas, Chemins, and Sinfonia -- and a review of his involvement with electronic music in the 1970s. Varga asks him about his various vocal and theatrical works. Berio discusses the purpose of music.
Conversations with Iannis Xenakis
The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge of higher mathematics. In these conversations he talks about his life and music.
György Ligeti
The combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for readers interested in post-war music history and in Hungarian culture. Shortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication. György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds- based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students, colleagues and friends, who reflect on differ...
Lutoslawski Profile
Many people will know something about the life of Lutoslawski, but few know anything about Lutoslawski the man. In this record of a unique series of conversations which took place in March 1973, Balint Andras Varga fills out the picture of the Polish composer - his life and career, his compositional methods, and his views on the contemporary music scene, all combine to present a fascinating portrait of Lutoslawski, who holds a unique and individual place in music today.
