Finding the Key Alexander Goehr

Puffett, Derrick

ISBN 10: 0571193102 / ISBN 13: 9780571193103

Published by Faber Faber Inc, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding the Key Alexander Goehr
• Publisher: Faber Faber Inc
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571193102
• ISBN 13: 9780571193103
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1779171994.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 24994761
• Signed: 5/19/2026 6:26:34 AM
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Synopsis

Dealing with the fundamental issues that face composers today, this collection of essays begins with a "Letter to Boulez" in which Alexander Goehr assesses his own progress away from the avant-garde of the 1950s. Goehr's account of the "Manchester School" of which he, Maxwell Davies and Birtwhistle were the protagonists, reveals what it was like to grow up musically in a world where modernism was considered almost a vice, and Messiaen's composition classes are described with loving detail. But Schoenberg and Stravinsky were, and are, at the heart of Goehr's musical concerns.