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Previously unseen letters, documents and photographs trace the life
and artistic evolution of Elliott Carter, and capture his
friendships with fellow musicians and others. Born in New York in
December 1908, the venerable but still active American composer
Elliott Carter is one of the most highly regarded figures in the
music of our time. His works span more than seven decades and have
been the subject of many analyses, and most of his writings have
appeared in carefully edited collections. In contrast, few of the
documents on his life and music, largely preserved at the Paul
Sacher Foundation in Basel, are known to the public. This body of
material forms the main source of the present volume, which offers
a richly annotated selection of Carter's correspondence and other
documents, including unpublished writings, facsimiles of music
manuscripts, and photographs. The book traces the biographical,
intellectual, and artistic evolution of a composer who, building on
American modernism and interacting with the latest developments in
Europe, has forged a distinctive, highly sophisticated musical
language, and captures his friendships with fellow musicians and
friends such as Charles Ives, Nadia Boulanger, John Kirkpatrick,
Aaron Copland, Nicolas Nabokov, and more recently, Pierre Boulez,
Oliver Knussen, Heinz Holliger, Daniel Barenboim, and James Levine.
Published in association with the Paul Sacher Foundation.
This book, first collection of essays in English on Bruno Maderna,
brings the reader closer to one of the greatest European composer
and conductor of the last century. Utopia, Innovation, Tradition:
Bruno Maderna's cosmos is the first collection of essays in English
dedicated to one of the most multifaceted and interesting musical
personalities of the 20th century, a protagonist in the development
of new music after World War II. The various essays cover the most
important aspects of Bruno Maderna's peculiar compositional
approach and, thanks to innovative methodological perspectives
based mainly on the study of archival materials, arrive at new and
often completely unexpected interpretations.
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