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Carter (Hardcover)
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Carter (Hardcover)
Series: Master Musicians Series
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Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical
music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over
the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently
produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring,
intellectually demanding, and emotionally complex. Distancing
himself from the various "schools" and movements that grew and
waned in popularity during the postwar era, Carter cultivated a
deeply personal musical style that he developed and refined up
until the very end of his life. This book springs from author David
Schiff's life-long interest in Elliott Carter's music and his close
personal connection with the composer which spanned over forty
years. This critical overview of Carter's life and work explores
aspects of the composer's life about which he was usually
reticent-and occasionally misleading-such as his complicated
relationships with Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Nicolas Nabokov,
and his own parents. Schiff's study of Carter's complete
oeuvre-from his politically charged Depression-era ballets to the
deeply personal and reflective late works-is based on extensive
study of the composer's personal sketches and letters. Featuring an
in-depth look at the legacy project of Carter's final decade, seven
settings of American modernist poetry by E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot,
Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos
Williams, this newest addition to the Master Musicians Series
paints with a fine brush the story of America's foremost composer
of the second half of the twentieth century.
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