Bohemian Fifths: An Autobiography - Rilegato

Henze, Hans Werner

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ISBN 10: 0691006830 ISBN 13: 9780691006833

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Hans Werner Henze is one of the world's leading composers. His autobiography is frank, impassioned, and alive with memorable images and characters and graphic accounts of the creative process and performances of his music.

Henze's unhappy childhood during the onset of Fascism found release in music, which, in spite of the disruption of the war, became the center of his life. He studied composition but began to make a career as a ballet conductor, until his creativity found expression in music that, by the early 1950s, had begun to distance itself from the fashionable but dogmatic rules of serialism in favor of his own individualistic conception of beauty. In both the political and sexual spheres, Hans Werner Henze is an outsider whose utopian dreams of a humane communism have always had to contend with reality. In musical and cultural matters, however, he is one of the best-connected and most influential figures of the postwar era and his autobiography brims with personal stories and observations of such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ingeborg Bachmann, Luchino Visconti, and Hans Magnus Enzensberg. A true cosmopolitan, he is happiest living in Italy, where his innate lyricism has found a natural home.

"Bohemian fifths" are intervals that were played by Bohemian horn players, and which, according to Baroque and Classical rules, were proscribed. Henze's writing protests the lack of freedom that such a prohibition implies, both in music and in life.

Originally published in 1999.

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"Hans Werner Henze is one of the most important composers of the twentieth century, and these are his extensive, detailed memoirs. For that reason alone, they should be read. I found the book highly interesting and highly readable."--John Rockwell, Editor, Arts and Leisure, The New York Times

"Henze is a significant figure in the music world whose career has spanned the major part of this century, and in locations that were crisis spots.... There are interesting passages here about his relationships with other artistic figures: W. H. Auden, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Luchino Visconti. He is quite candid and amusing about encounters with musicians such as Luigi Nono, Sergui Celibidache, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. The descriptions he provides of some of his concerts ... will become part of theater lore."--Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

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"Hans Werner Henze is one of the most important composers of the twentieth century, and these are his extensive, detailed memoirs. For that reason alone, they should be read. I found the book highly interesting and highly readable."--John Rockwell, Editor, Arts and Leisure, The New York Times

"Henze is a significant figure in the music world whose career has spanned the major part of this century, and in locations that were crisis spots.... There are interesting passages here about his relationships with other artistic figures: W. H. Auden, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Luchino Visconti. He is quite candid and amusing about encounters with musicians such as Luigi Nono, Sergui Celibidache, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. The descriptions he provides of some of his concerts ... will become part of theater lore."--Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691006830
• ISBN 13: 9780691006833
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile