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Mathias Spahlinger (Paperback, New edition)
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Mathias Spahlinger (Paperback, 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 Künste (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 Rancière, means that it could also have significant appeal
across the disciplines of philosophy and critical theory.
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