Bálint András Varga

Contemporary Hungarian Music in the International Press

Contemporary Hungarian Composers

Iannis Xenakis

Synomilies me ton Iannis Xenakis

three interviews and Ligeti homages

György Kurtág

Rossana Dalmonte

Luciano Berio

Dalmonte's questions cover many aspects of contemporary musical life. Berio talks freely about his early childhood through his contact with the Darmstadt serialists and his experiences while teaching and performing in America. There is also a detailed examination of his major instrumental works of the 1960s -- Te Sequenzas, Chemins, and Sinfonia -- and a review of his involvement with electronic music in the 1970s. Varga asks him about his various vocal and theatrical works. Berio discusses the purpose of music.

Two Interviews

Two Interviews with Rossanna Dalmonte and Balint Andras Varga

Witold Lutosławski

Conversations with Lutoslawski

Lutosławski Profile

Witold Lutoslawski in Conversation with Balint Andras Varga

Lutoslawski Profile

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.

Interviews and a Memoir

From Boulanger to Stockhausen

The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge of higher mathematics. In these conversations he talks about his life and music.

Conversations with Iannis Xenakis

Twee interviews met de Italiaanse componist (geb. 1925) die een beeld geven van zijn leven en werk.

Master interviewer Bálint András Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words.

Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers

Gyula Czigány

Im Auftrag des Archivs der Akademie der Künste

Die Sammlung Balínt András Varga

Frontcover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Prompts -- Part One: Composers -- 1 Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952) -- 2 John Adams (b. 1947) -- 3 Vykintas Baltakas (b. 1972) -- 4 George Benjamin (b. 1960) -- 5 Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926) -- 6 Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) -- 7 George Crumb (b. 1929) -- 8 Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) -- 9 Paul-Heinz Dittrich (b. 1930) -- 10 Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) -- 11 Lorenzo Ferrero (b. 1951) -- 12 Michael Gielen (b. 1927) -- 13 Detlev Glanert (b. 1960) -- 14 Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) -- 15 Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) -- 16 Giya Kancheli (b. 1935) -- 17 György Kurtág (b. 1926) -- 18 Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) -- 19 Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- 20 Liza Lim (b. 1966) -- 21 Luca Lombardi (b. 1945) -- 22 Siegfried Matthus (b. 1934) -- 23 Robert Morris (b. 1943) -- 24 Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968) -- 25 Enno Poppe (b. 1969) -- 26 Karl Aage Rasmussen (b. 1947) -- 27 Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) -- 28 Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) -- 29 Allen Shawn (b. 1948) -- 30 Johannes Maria Staud (b. 1974) -- 31 Manfred Trojahn (b. 1949) -- 32 Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) -- 33 Christian Wolff (b. 1934) -- Part Two: Critics -- 34 Paul Griffiths (b. 1947) -- 35 Wolfgang Schreiber (b. 1939) -- 36 Arnold Whittall (b. 1935) -- Part Three: Festival Directors -- 37 Heike Hoffmann (b. 1958) -- 38 Sir Nicholas Kenyon (b. 1951) -- Epilogue: Rainer Nonnenmann (b. 1968) and Bálint András Varga (b. 1941) -- Index

Reflections on New Music

The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste

Bálint András Varga

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