Yesterday, 27th of november, was the birthday of the German composer Helmut Lachenmann, born in 1935. Luigi Nono’s disciple, he is considered as a major composer of our time and as the most representative of the “klangkomposition”.
Today, a video of a great American composer, who already left us for 16 years. This document dates from January 1960 and shows us John Cage playing his Water Walk during the TV show “I’ve got a secret”.
At this time, John Cage was an extremely controversial character in the music world and taught experimental composition [...]
I would to share with you two links in french, sorry. While have a look on the archives of INA, I discovered a series of interviews called “Musique Mémoires”.
There are fascinating conversations with leading figures of contemporary music, such as Claude Ballif, François Bayle, Marius Constant, Antoine Duhamel, Michel Fano, Claude Helffer, Betsy Jolas, [...]
Deeply shocked by the German composer’s death on Wednesday, I think that there’s no need to revisit the extraordinary career of one of the most important personality in musical landscape after World War II.
If you want to learn more please go to www.stockhausen.org.
Cet article est également disponible en français à http://blog.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/stock-mort-152
Closely related to radio first studios at the beginning of the Fifties and to an emblematic figure of the electronic music Pierre Schaeffer,this music is too often forgotten as a major influence in the history of the music by introducing electronics into the contemporary classical music.
This is a dangerous subject. I don’t intend to discus generaly about musical training and teaching but I’ll focus on the particular case of contemporary music, because it takes less place in the education than it deserves, when it’s not completely “forgotten”.
In conservatoires and universities, If you must study Beethoven’s sonatas, Bach’s fugues, [...]
The spectral music is a movement which was born at the beginning of the 1970’s with the research of Gerard Grisey and Tristan Murail. It is an aesthetic school from which, following work of their elders, several composers of the next intermediate generation draw their inspiration: Philippe Hurel, Philippe Leroux, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Jean-Luc Herve, Thierry [...]
Lutoslawski, Xenakis, Britten, Carter, Penderecki, Kurtág, Lindberg, Dutilleux, Ligeti, Murail, don’t all these names say anything to you? You surely don’t listen to music known as “contemporary”. “Contemporary” even if it’s quite obvious that any music was one day contemporary. But when one speaks about contemporary music, it’s especially about the music written since the [...]
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