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b. 1932 English composer A member of the Manchester New Music Group, Goehr studied also in Paris with Messiaen. He attended the Darmstadt Summer School in 1956, but ultimately found its orthodoxy too dogmatic. Works such as the Little Symphony (1963) instead attempt a synthesis of serial elements with modality and traditional formal models. The music of Johann Sebastian ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

b. 1960 English composer Benjamin studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Messiaen and later at Cambridge with Goehr. While still at Cambridge he came to wider public attention with his orchestral piece Ringed by the Flat Horizon (1980). Since then he has composed slowly but fastidiously, forces ranging from solo (Three Miniatures for violin, 2001) and duo (Viola, ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1983). His learning and non-doctrinaire openness to new musical ideas made him an inspiring teacher. His pupils included Pierre Boulez (b. 1925), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2010), Iannis Xenakis (b. 1922), Alexander Goehr (b. 1932) and George Benjamin (b. 1960). Recommended Recording: Turangalîla-symphonie, Jeanne & Yvonne Loriod, Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung (Deutsche Grammophon) Introduction | Modern Era | ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

was premiered in Madrid in 2013. Recommended Recording: Einstein on the Beach, soloists, Philip Glass Ensemble (dir) Michael Riesman (Sony) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Alexander Goehr | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

grew up in Hunan province during the Cultural Revolution, encountering Western classical music only on entering the Beijing Central Conservatory at 19. Encouraged there by visiting teachers such as Goehr, Henze and Takemitsu, he moved to New York in 1986 to continue his studies at Columbia University. His early works integrated elements of Western atonality with instruments and ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

variation was Goehr’s ‘lost opera by Monteverdi’, Arianna (1995): apart from the famous ‘Lamento d’Arianna’, all that survives of this Monteverdi opera is Ottavio Rinuccini’s libretto. It was this that Goehr set, for an orchestra including saxophones, bass clarinet and sampler. The success of Baroque opera has enriched the repertory and also expanded vocal and instrumental resources: composers such ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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