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Balint Andras Varga
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…
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Uniquely revealing interviews with one of the world’s greatest living composers.
First English-language publication of fascinating interviews with world-renowned musicians: composers (Gyoergy Ligeti), conductors (Claudio Abbado), singers (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), instrumentalists (Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Brendel), and more.
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.
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.
