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From Boulanger to Stockhausen
First English-language publication of fascinating interviews with world-renowned musicians: composers (György Ligeti), conductors (Claudio Abbado), singers (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), instrumentalists (Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Brendel), and more.
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. The interviewees include singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Cathy Berberian; pianists Alfred Brendel and Arthur Rubinstein; violinists Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin; conductors Claudio Abbado and Sir Neville Marriner; composers György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen; and legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Of special interest is an interview with the reclusive composer György Kurtág, here published for the first time in any language.
From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a poignant memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about his many interviews with some of these remarkable musicia
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Bálint András Varga
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Bálint András Varga, author of four widely hailed books for the University of Rochester Press, died on New Year’s Eve 2019. A few years ago, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross called this quiet, attentive man “one of the great listeners in the recent history of music” for his keen musical responsiveness and his ability to elicit startling confessions from movers and shakers in our musical world.
Bálint András Varga (born in 1941) was one of the University of Rochester Press’s most prolific and admired authors. We published four of his books, which focus almost entirely on the challenges that serious composers of concert music and opera have faced in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
I was delighted when Bálint brought his first manuscript to us. It consisted of comments by the great Hungarian-Jewish composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) on his own music and that of his slightly older contemporary (from a similar background) György Ligeti. The book came out in 2009 and was widely welcomed, not least because Kurtág has rarely allowed himself to be interviewed.
Bálint’s next URP book really made the musical world sit up and take notice. Three Questions for 65 Composers is a slim but astounding volume: as conductor Simon Rattle has put it, the book is