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Gerhard on Music : Selected Writings, PDF eBook

Gerhard on Music : Selected Writings PDF

Part of the Routledge Revivals series

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This title was first published in 2000: Catalan-born composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) left significant legacies - both musical and documentary.

Exiled in Cambridge with the onset of the Spanish Civil War, he gradually achieved wide recognition by performers and conductors, in both Britain and America, as a composer whose music was essential to the modern repertoire.

In this work, the author collects many of the composer's articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts to demonstrate the full extent and continuity of Gerhard's artistic and creative thinking.

The writings have been arranged thematically to emphasize the evolution of Gerhard's musical interests.

His attachment to Spanish and Catalonian traditions broadened into a fascination with folk music of all kinds.

His studies with Schoenberg in the mid 1920s gave him the key to his own creative individuality; thereafter, his imaginative vitality led him eventually to experiment with electronic and concrete music and he continued breaking new ground, even in his final years.

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