Three questions for sixty-five composers
The Hungarian born author, Bálint András Varga, who is a well known promotion manager in the contemporary musical world revised and republished his book twenty five years after the first Hungarian edition.
His three questions - related to the inspirations and the formation of one’s own personal style - were raised with the most important composers of the late twentieth century and of the last decade. Not only Boulez, Cage, Ligeti, Reich, Stockhausen and Wolff but several UMPC composers like Berio, Nono, Eötvös, Kurtág, Petrassi, Szőllősy, Xenakis provided their answers as well.
The English language edition was published by the University of Rochester Press and praised among others by Sir Simon Rattle: “Typical of Bálint András Varga , the most civilized intelligent of publishers, to elicit such multiplicity of responses to three deceptively simple questions. Necessary reading for all who care about the music of our time.”
23 września 2011
