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All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Gubaidulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process. Balint Andras 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 The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaidulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, Gyoergy Kurtag, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm. Also represented are composers who are becoming more prominent with the passing years -- Chaya Czernowin, Pascal Dusapin, and Rebecca Saunders -- as well as conductor-composer Michael Gielen, festival director Nicholas Kenyon, and music critics Paul Griffiths and Arnold Whittall. In The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste, composers and other insightful individuals comment on choices made, traps avoided, unforeseen consequences, proud accomplishments, occasional regrets: the whole range of experiences central to artistic creativity. Balint Andras Varga isthe acclaimed author of Gyoergy Kurtag: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages; Three Questions for 65 Composers; and From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (all available from University of Rochester Press).

Table of Contents:
Prompts Introduction Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952) John Adams (b. 1947) Vykintas Baltakas (b. 1972) George Benjamin (b. 1960) Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926) Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) George Crumb (b. 1929) Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) Paul-Heinz Dittrich (b. 1930) Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) Lorenzo Ferrero (b. 1951) Michael Gielen (b. 1927) Detlev Glanert (b. 1960) Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) Giya Kancheli (b. 1935) György Kurtág (b. 1926) Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) Libby Larsen (b. 1950) Liza Lim (b. 1966) Luca Lombardi (b. 1945) Siegfried Matthus (b. 1934) Robert Morris (b. 1943) Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968) Enno Poppe (b. 1969) Karl Aage Rasmussen (b. 1947) Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) Allen Shawn (b. 1948) Johannes Maria Staud (b. 1974) Manfred Trojahn (b. 1949) Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) Christian Wolff (b. 1934) Paul Griffiths (b. 1947) Wolfgang Schreiber (b. 1939) Arnold Whittall (b. 1935) Heike Hoffmann (b. 1958) Sir Nicholas Kenyon (b. 1951) Epilogue: Rainer Nonnenmann (b. 1968) andBálint András Varga (b. 1941) Index

Review :
[Varga] is an interviewer of great skill and is extremely well connected in the new-music world. This volume continues the excellent work of [his] Three Questions, offering carefully scripted interviews with thirty-three composers from around the globe. Every response offers something new and individual to the conversation. A commendable volume, certainly of interest to many composers and scholars of new music. Capturing a wealth of ideas about contemporary music, [Varga's latest book] features a wide breadth of composers, including such grandees as George Crumb and Wolfgang Rihm. Varga's encounter with John Adams is a highlight. The book not only offers a marvellous compendium of musical philosophies but also captures something of the intensely personal energy that fuels the creative act. Bálint András Varga is extremely well connected within the New Music scene. [In his latest book we meet] an illustrious troop of composers who, with their testimonies, commentaries, and thoughts, give at times sobering insights into their existence as composers. This book is a wonderful follow-up to Bálint András Varga's last book. The reader will be rewarded with numerous discoveries about the creative process from an authentic perspective. Books of this kind rarely succeed in making you curious about the author's next book, as Varga's does. [Review of German edition]


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  • ISBN-13: 9781580465939
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 274
  • Series Title: Eastman Studies in Music
  • Weight: 348 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1580465935
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Reflections on New Music
  • Width: 152 mm


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