Format:
1 online resource (x, 394 pages).
ISBN:
978-1-58046-817-6
Content:
Bálint András Varga makes available here twenty-one extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively "snippets" from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. The interviewees include singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Cathy Berberian; pianists Alfred Brendel and Arthur Rubinstein, violinists Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin; conductors Claudio Abbado and Sir Neville Marriner; composers György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen; and legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Of special interest is an interview with the reclusive composer György Kurtág, here published for the first time in any language. From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a touching memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about how he managed to interview so many remarkable musicians-thanks in large part to his employment at the Hungarian state radio station and then in the music-publishing industry, which brought him to, among other places, London and Vienna, where he now lives. Bálint András Varga has spent nearly forty years working for and with composers. His previous books for the University of Rochester Press are György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages and Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers
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Part One : Interviews. Composers : Georges Auric ; Alois Hába ; György Kurtág ; György Ligeti ; Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Conductors : Ernest Bour ; Sir Neville Marriner ; Eugene Ormandy ; Hans Swarowsky ; Iván Fischer and Ádám Fischer -- Instrumentalists : Alfred Brendel ; Yehudi Menuhin ; Isaac Stern ; Tibor Varga -- Singers and a record producer : Cathy Berberian ; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge -- A teacher : Nadia Boulanger -- Music administrators : Sir William Glock ; Wolfgang Stresemann -- Snippets : Claudio Abbado ; Sir Neville Cardus ; Aaron Copland ; Antal Doráti ; Géza Frid ; Sylvia Goldstein ; Ralph Kirkpatrick ; Witold Lutosławski ; Vlado Perlemuter ; Arthur Rubinstein ; György Sándor ; Walter Susskind ; Joseph Szigeti
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Part Two : A Memoir. Introduction ; Ancestors ; On being Jewish ; Growing up in postwar socialist Hungary ; Margit ; Tapespondence ; Birth and demise of a (counter) revolution : A boy's-eye view ; Broadcasting 1 ; Broadcasting 2 ; Editio Musica Budapest ; Interviewing : an obsession ; Ich war ein Berliner ; Moving to Vienna ; Universal Edition ; Back catalogue ; The psychology of promotion ; Farewell and after
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-1-58046-439-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Musiker
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Komponist
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Dirigent
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Musikverleger
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Musikjournalist
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1941-2019 Varga, Bálint András
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Biografie
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Varga, Bálint András, 1941-2019,
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