Der Komponisten Mut und die Tyrannei des Geschmacks

Courage, fear, despair, tyranny: this book attempts to find out what goes on in composers' studios, what struggle with the material, with their own limits, with the traditional rules, the transgression of which represents a courageous act even for the 90-year-old György Kurtág - in other words, what struggle lies behind the notes that we hear in the concerts. Notes that you "like" or "dislike", depending on your taste, intelligence, openness, curiosity and experience.

Thoughts, statements and dialogs by and with the composers Hans Abrahamsen, John Adams, Vykintas Baltakas, George Benjamin, Friedrich Cerha, Unsuk Chin, George Crumb, Chaya Czernowin, Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Pascal Dusapin, Lorenzo Ferrero, Uli Fussenegger, Michael Gielen, Detlev Glanert, Sofia Gubaidulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kantscheli, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Liza Lim, Luca Lombardi, Siegfried Matthus, Robert Morris, Olga Neuwirth, Enno Poppe, Karl Aage Rasmussen, Wolfgang Rihm, Rebecca Saunders, Allen Shawn, Johannes Maria Staud, Manfred Trojahn, Jörg Widmann and Christian Wolff, the critics Paul Griffiths, Gerhard R. Koch, Rainer Nonnenmann, Wolfgang Schreiber and Arnold Whittall and the festival directors Heike Hoffmann and Sir Nicholas Kenyon.

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