Messiaen - Hardcover

Hill, Peter; Simeone, Nigel

 
9780300109078: Messiaen
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300109075 ISBN 13: 9780300109078
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) is a musician about whom most remains to be discovered. More than a decade after his death our knowledge of Messiaen is largely conditioned by what he said about himself in lectures and interviews, in his work as a teacher, and in the monumental seven-volume treatise that encompassed the whole of his composing world. But Messiaen’s public documents conceal as much as they reveal, seldom explaining why a work was written or what complexities went into its making. The composer was similarly reticent about his private life.

This is the first book to explore the world that Messiaen was at pains to keep hidden. Based upon unprecedented access to Messiaen’s private archive granted to the authors by the composer’s widow, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone trace the origins of many of Messiaen’s greatest works and place them in the context of his life, from his years at the Paris Conservatoire and his passionate first marriage to Claire Delbos through the immense achievements of his final decades.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Hill is professor of music at the University of Sheffield. A former student of Messiaen, he is editor of The Messiaen Companion. Nigel Simeone is professor of historical musicology at the University of Sheffield and author of Paris: A Musical Gazetteer, published by Yale University Press.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300109075
ISBN 13 
9780300109078
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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