Settling New Scores - Music Manuscripts from the Paul Sacher Foundation

This English publication originally accompanied an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, in summer 1998. Here, for the first time outside of Basel, the Foundation presented a representative cross-section of its holdings to the educated public. The catalogue contains some eighty color plates, descriptions of all exhibition items, detailed comments on more than forty selected works, and several related essays.

List of contents

Foreword by C.E. Pierce - Foreword by P. Sacher - Introduction - The Paul Sacher Collection - Two Portraits: I. Strawinsky - P. Boulez - From Sketch to Score - Collaborations - American Connections - Fragments, Torsos, Works in Progress - Tributes - Made in Switzerland - Appendix: The Paul Sacher Foundation

Summary

This English publication originally accompanied an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, in summer 1998. Here, for the first time outside of Basel, the Foundation presented a representative cross-section of its holdings to the educated public. The catalogue contains some eighty color plates, descriptions of all exhibition items, detailed comments on more than forty selected works, and several related essays.

Product details

• Assisted by: Felix Hrsg. v. Meyer (Editor), Felix Meyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Schott Music, Mainz
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9783795703479
• ISBN: 978-3-7957-0347-9
• No. of pages: 303
• Weight: 1272 g
• Illustrations: 81 Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Musikgeschichte, entdecken, Strawinsky, Paul Sacher, American Connections