Nähe und Distanz

The idea behind these two anthologies is to juxtapose self-interpretation with external interpretation. The editor was able to enlist the participation of 21 contemporary composers, each of whom comments on, interprets, or presents one of their own works.
Each work is juxtaposed with an external interpretation by a recognized expert, written without knowledge of the composer’s self-interpretation. In this way, each work opens up to the reader, as it were, between the two mirrors of self-perception and external perception.
Both the similarities and the dissonances between the parallel interpretations are intended to provide the reader with their own auditory and textual approach to the work.
Only original contributions were published.

Vol. I: Hans-Jürgen von Bose – Frank Schneider
Friedrich Cerha – Barbara Zuber
Brian Ferneyhough – Fabricio Panisello
Klaus Huber – Gerhard R. Koch
Mauricio Kagel – Gerhard R. Winckler
Arvo Pärt – Helga de la Motte-Haber
Steve Reich – Hans-C. von Dadelsen
Rolf Riehm – Susanne Rode-Breymann
Jean-Claude Risset – André Rutschkowski
Hans Zender – Peter Revers

Vol. II: Luciano Berio – Wilfried Gruhn
Beat Furrer – Diether de la Motte
Heiner Goebbels – Barbara Barthelmes
Friedrich Goldmann – Max Nyffeler
Adriana Hölszky – Ewald Liska
Wilhelm Killmayer – Clytus Gottwald
Helmut Lachenmann – Martin Kaltenecker
Olga Neuwirth – Ulrich Mosch
Emanuel Nunes – Martin Zenck
Dieter Schnebel – Siegfried Mauser
Jakob Ullmann – Christian Scheib

Contents Volume I

Table of Contents Volume II