Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers
Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers

Author: Bálint András Varga

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1580463797

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Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.

New Music at Darmstadt
New Music at Darmstadt

Author: Martin Iddon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1107033292

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The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the 'Darmstadt School'.

Reflections of an American Composer
Reflections of an American Composer

Author: Arthur Berger

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0520232518

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A book of memoirs and essays by notable composer, critic and teacher Arthur Berger. The author writes vividly about the music scenes in New York, Paris, and Boston, and of his work with notable colleagues such as Stravinsky, Copeland, and Virgil Thompson.

Korngold and His World
Korngold and His World

Author: Daniel Goldmark

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0691198292

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater. Today, he is best known for his Hollywood film scores, composed between 1935 and 1947.