From Boulanger to Stockhausen - Interviews and a Memoir

First English-language publication of fascinating interviews with world-renowned musicians: composers (György Ligeti), conductors (Claudio Abbado), singers (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), instrumentalists (Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Brendel), and more.

List of contents

Part One: Interviews
Part Two: 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
Notes in Retrospect
Index

About the author

Bálint András Varga

Summary

First English-language publication of fascinating interviews with world-renowned musicians: composers (György Ligeti), conductors (Claudio Abbado), singers (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), instrumentalists (Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Brendel), and more.

Product details

• Authors: Balint Andras Varga, Bálint András Varga
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9781580464390
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-439-0
• No. of pages: 410
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 782 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet