Encounters With Conlon Nancarrow

Informationen zum Autor By Jurgen Hocker Klappentext Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow, by Jürgen Hocker, is the first extensive biography of the American-Mexican composer whose works for the player piano exhibit an innovation and complexity which remains unmatched. Hocker gives insight to the life and personality of the often reclusive Nancarrow, making use of many as-yet-unpublished sources and interviews as well as a timeline and a comprehensive catalogue of Nancarrow's works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue by György LigetiPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: First Concerts. Amsterdam 1987Chapter Two: Nancarrow in Germany 1988Chapter Three: Nancarrow in Vienna 1989Chapter Four: Visits to MexicoChapter Five: Nancarrow Festival in Paris in 1991ChronologyCatalogue of WorksDissemination of Nancarrow's Player Piano Music in EuropeDiscographyBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jeurgen Hocker, Jurgen Hocker, Hocker Jurgen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780739172858
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7285-8
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music