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The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraque (Hardcover, New)
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The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraque (Hardcover, New)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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The life and works of one of the most difficult yet rewarding
composers of modern time. Jean Barraque is increasingly being
recognized as one of the great composers of the second half of the
20th century. Though he left only seven works, his voice in each of
them is unmistakeable, and powerful. He had no doubt of
hisresponsibility, as a creator, to take his listeners on
challenging adventures that could not but leave them changed. After
the collapse of morality he had witnessed as a child growing up
during the Second World War, and having taken notice of so much
disarray in the culture around him, he set himself to make music
that would, out of chaos, speak. Three others were crucial to him.
One was Pierre Boulez, who, three years older, provided him with
keysto a new musical language -- a language more dramatic, driving
and passionate than Boulez's. Another was Michel Foucault, to whom
he was close personally for a while, and with whom he had a
dialogue that was determinative for bothof them. Finally, in the
writings of Hermann Broch-and especially in the novel The Death of
Virgil-he found the myth he needed to realize musically. He played
for high stakes, and he took risks with himself as well as in
hisart. Intemperate and difficult, even with his closest friends,
he died in 1973 at the age of forty-five. Paul Griffiths was chief
music critic for the London Times (1982-92) and The New Yorker
(1992-96) and since 1996 has written regularly for the New York
Times. He has written books on Boulez, Cage, Messiaen, Ligeti,
Davies, Bartok and Stravinsky, as well as several librettos, among
them The Jewel Box (Mozart, 1991), Marco Polo (Tan Dun, 1996) and
What Next? (Elliott Carter, 1999).
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