Begegnungen mit Conlon Nancarrow
 

Begegnungen mit Conlon Nancarrow

composer: Conlon Nancarrow
author: Jürgen Hocker
general editor: Rolf W. Stoll

Publisher: Schott Music
Edition: edition with CD
Language: German
Series: New Magazine for Music Edition
Paperback/Soft Cover
ISBN: 978-3-7957-0476-6
Order number: NZ 5003

Price: 39.90 €
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'Nancarrow's music is the greatest discovery since Webern and Ives.'
György Ligeti
 
The American composer Conlon Nancarrow became famous for his complex compositions for player piano. In his Mexican exile he wrote an extremely original and at the same time emotional music which contributed to the further development of 20th-century music, beyond twelve-note technique and serialism.
Jürgen Hocker accompanied Nancarrow in the last two decades of his life and now tells about Nancarrow's stages as a composer and about his personality.
The CD accompanying the book contains recordings of music by Nancarrow, some of them previously unreleased, as well as musico-historical recordings for mechanical pianos. With its combination of musicological work and biography, the present publication is aimed at both academics and a wide public interested in modern music.
 
 
Press reviews:
 
'… an impressive amount of biographical facts and authentic documents (…) which form a detailed picture… and not forgetting the accompanying CD which not only provides an excellent overview of Nancarrow's oeuvre for player piano but also contains a few gems from the pioneer years of the self-playing piano.'
Peter Niklas Wilson in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
 
'… With his tricky pieces for mechanical piano, the composer and eccentric Conlon Nancarrow has made a significant contribution to the music history of the 20th century. It is due to a new book … that he is now discovered for the second time. … You can read Jürgen Hocker's book while strolling, meeting scouts like René Block or Monika Fürst-Heidtmann in side streets, György Ligeti who praises him tirelessly and unselfishly in Europe (…) Charles Amirkhanian … or James Tenney …'
Konrad Heidtkamp in: DIE ZEIT/Musik
 

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