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Mathias Spahlinger (Hardcover, New edition)
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Mathias Spahlinger (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers
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The first book-length study in English of composer Mathias
Spahlinger, one of Germany's leading practitioners of contemporary
music. One of the most stimulating and provocative figures on the
new music scene on Germany, he has long been a touchstone for
leftist, 'critical' composition there, yet his work has received
very little attention in Anglophone scholarship until now. Born in
1944, Spahlinger has risen only gradually to prominence in his
native Germany and for many years was considered an outsider within
the contemporary music scene. Yet, his position as one of the most
venerable exponents of post-WWII modernism in his homeland is now
undeniable: his music is regularly performed, he has received
commissions from many of the major orchestras and new music groups
in Germany, and in 2014 he received the Grossen Berliner Kunstpreis
(Berlin Art Prize - Grand Prize) from the city's Akademie der
Kunste (Academy of Arts). Spahlinger is, however, becoming
increasingly known as a significant figure within later
twentieth-century music - in 2015, a festival in Chicago focused
exclusively on his music, and he was a keynote speaker at a
conference on Compositional Aesthetics and the Political at
Goldsmiths, University of London. This new book provides an
essential reference for scholars of new music and twentieth-century
modernism. There are no other book-length studies of Spahlinger in
English, though there is a monograph and a book of essays in
German, and books of interviews. This original work promises a more
critical perspective upon the composer and his aesthetics and
political ideas compared to previous publications. The
illustrations include musical examples. Its primary market will be
a specialist musicological readership, including academics,
researchers and composers, but the writing style such that it could
be accessible also to undergraduates interested in the field. The
discussion of aesthetic debates in post-war Germany, and the
interesting reading of the work of Jacques Ranciere, means that it
could also have significant appeal across the disciplines of
philosophy and critical theory.
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