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. Balint Andras 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. The interviewees include singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
and Cathy Berberian; pianists Alfred Brendel and Arthur Rubinstein;
violinists Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin; conductors Claudio
Abbado and Sir Neville Marriner; composers Gyoergy Ligeti and
Karlheinz Stockhausen; and legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Of
special interest is an interview with the reclusive composer
Gyoergy Kurtag, 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. Interviewees: Claudio Abbado, Georges Auric, Cathy
Berberian, Nadia Boulanger, Ernest Bour, Alfred Brendel, Aaron
Copland, Sir Neville Cardus, Antal Dorati, Adam Fischer, Ivan
Fischer, Geza Frid, Sir William Glock, Sylvia Goldstein, Alois
Haba, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Gyoergy Kurtag, Walter Legge, Gyoergy
Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Sir Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin,
Eugene Ormandy,Vladlemuter, Arthur Rubinstein, Gyoergy Sandor,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Isaac Stern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang
Stresemann, Walter Susskind, Hans Swarowsky, Joseph Szigeti, Tibor
Varga. Balint Andras Varga has spent morethan forty years working
for and with composers. His previous books include Gyoergy Kurtag:
Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages and Three Questions for
Sixty-Five Composers, both published by the University of Rochester
Press.
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