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Lutoslawski's Worlds (Hardcover)
Lisa Jakelski, Nicholas Reyland; Contributions by Adrian Thomas, Andrea F. Bohlman, Danuta Gwizdalanka, …
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R2,351
Discovery Miles 23 510
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Witold Lutoslawski was one of the most important composers of the
twentieth century, whose significance extends far beyond his native
Poland. His vita is just as captivating as his compositionally
path-breaking music. Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) was one of the
most important composers of the twentieth century. His significance
extends far beyond his native Poland: his classical music was
premiered by internationally renowned performers likethe LaSalle
Quartet and Krystian Zimerman, and his symphonies, concertante,
chamber, instrumental and vocal music are produced by the leading
labels of the recording industry. Lutoslawski's vita is just as
captivating as his compositionally path-breaking music. He lived
through the Second World War and brutal German oppression of
Poland, negotiated the challenges of Soviet influence and
fluctuating local politics during Poland's post-war transition to
communism, and finally strove for a new voice in the post-Stalin
Thaw of the mid-1950s. Lutoslawski's Worlds is a landmark volume
which looks at the multi-faceted spheres that informed the
composer's life and works andrepresents a new departure in the
study of his music. Throughout his life, he steered musicologists
away from the connections between his extraordinary biography and
concert music. He also sought to minimize scholarly attention to
the many other spheres of creative activity - popular music,
theatre music, film scoring, propaganda music, and educational
music - that occupied him. In this volume, for the first time, the
world's leading Lutoslawski scholars consider the full range of his
musical output and the biographical, cultural and historical
contexts in which those musics were created. It contends that all
of Lutoslawski's worlds are equally worthy of study, because each
represents an opportunity better to understand the life and music
of a figure of paramount importance to the critical and cultural
history of twentieth-century music.
This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on
the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th
century. Contributors challenge the broadly held opinion that the
loss of tonality in some music after 1900 also meant the loss of
narrative in that music. To the contrary, the editors and essayists
in this book demonstrate how experiments in approaching narrative
in other media, such as fiction and cinema, suggested fresh
possibilities for musical narrative, which composers were quick to
exploit. The new conceptions of time, narrative voice, plot, and
character that accompanied these experiments also had a significant
impact on contemporary music. The repertoire explored in the
collection ranges across a wide variety of genres and includes
composers from Charles Ives and the Pet Shop Boys to Thomas Ades
and Dmitri Shostakovich."
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