This collection of 24 pieces written over four decades provides a rich and wide-ranging overview of many of Finnissy's musical concerns. In music sometimes of great simplicity and sometimes of extreme complexity, there is throughout a care and affection for the music, lives, and beliefs of others who are portrayed in many of these evocative pieces. This is humane music in which can be found warmth and tenderness and anger and despair, and which always leaves one emotionally richer at the end.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 311 mm
Breite: 231 mm
Dicke: 9 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-372643-7 (9780193726437)
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Michael Finnissy was born in Tulse Hill, London in 1946 and studied at the Royal College of Music. He later studied in Italy with Roman Vlad. He went on to create the music department of the London School of Contemporary Dance, and has been associated as composer with many notable British dance companies. He has also been musician in residence to the Victorian College of the Arts, the City of Caulfield in Australia, and the East London Late Starters Orchestra. In 1999 he was made Professor of Composition at the University of Southampton.
Finnissy has been featured composer at the Bath, Huddersfield and Almeida festivals, amongst others, and his works are widely performed and broadcast worldwide. Recordings are available on various labels, notably NMC and Metier; the latter has released a cycle of CDs to great critical acclaim.
