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b. 1943 English composer Ferneyhough studied for a time with Lennox Berkeley (1903–89) and then Klaus Huber (b. 1924), though he is essentially self-taught. Ferneyhough considers himself at the forefront of modern music, along with Webern, Boulez and Stockhausen. His works are often extremely difficult, and in the early 1970s some aleatory elements were included (Sieben Sterne, ...

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enduring symphonies, provided models for such composers as Robert Schumann (1810–56) and Johannes Brahms (1833–97) and for twentieth-century composers such as Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), Michael Tippett (1905–98) and Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943). There can be no doubt that without Beethoven, the history of music in the last two centuries would have been very different. Recommended Recording: Symphonies Nos. 5 ...

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b. 1958 Finnish composer He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and later with Ferneyhough and Lachenmann. He made several visits to IRCAM, the research institute founded by Boulez in Paris, and while electronics no longer feature extensively in his music, his distinctive harmonic language owes much to the experiments in spectral analysis he undertook there. ...

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the tempo and duration of notes. Recommended Recording: Rothko Chapel, soloists, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus (cond) Philip Brett (New Albion) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Brian Ferneyhough | Contemporary | Classical ...

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European interest in indeterminacy. Though the 1950s tend to be viewed as Darmstadt’s heyday, the courses have continued to thrive (biennially from 1970) under such influential teachers as Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943), Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935). The Politics of the Cold War After World War II, it took the Soviet Union just a few years to ...

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and also the cross-rhythms of Brazil and the Caribbean. ‘Classic’ Modernism, however, has continued to develop and even intensify through the so-called ‘complexity music’ of composers such as Ferneyhough, whose work features an extreme density of detailed event and makes exceptional demands on a performer’s virtuosity. Ligeti’s late work is perhaps closest to Postmodernism, a term borrowed ...

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processes of Ockeghem find their way into the Requiem of 1963–65 by György Ligeti (1923–2006), and even the ‘Caput’ plainchant melody turns up in Unsichtbare Farben (‘Invisible Colours’) by Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943). The possible list is extensive and includes neo-tonal composers like Arvo Pärt (b. 1935, who draws on the music of Perotin), Steve Reich (b. 1936) and Alfred ...

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more surprising developments of the 1990s was the emergence of the Rex Foundation, set up to sponsor performances and recordings of complex contemporary scores (of Birtwistle, Carter, Ferneyhough and others) by members of the rock band The Grateful Dead. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Arts & Culture | Librettists | Contemporary | Classical ...