Tag: Darmstadt School

A Cultural Conversation With Pierre Boulez

Post author By Mike
Post date January 27, 2010

Among musicians and concert-goers there are many who accuse Mr. Boulez of foisting the musical equivalent of gray concrete towers on them by composing and promoting pieces that are unlovable, incomprehensible and, in the words of one recent author, “willfully ugly.” A founding member of the Darmstadt School, a group of composers who came of age in the years after World War II, Mr. Boulez helped set the agenda of modernist music, rejecting tonality and classical forms in favor of new styles that employ exquisitely intricate systems of organizing notes and yet sound, to the uninitiated, bewildering.

Another view on composition (classicaldrone.blogspot.com)
Standards for “good” music (classicaldrone.blogspot.com)

Tags Add new tag, Classical music, Darmstadt School, History, Musical theatre, Twentieth Century, Wall Street Journal, Wars and Conflicts, World War II

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RIP Henri Pousseur

Post author By Mike
Post date March 10, 2009

: Henri Pousseur (via last.fm)

Henri Pousseur passed on late last week.

Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur’s music employs serialism, mobile forms, and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, such as those of Schubert and Webern (Votre Faust), or Pousseur’s own serial style and the protest song “We shall overcome” (Couleurs croisées).

Iannis Xenakis, “Polla Ta Dhina” (netnewmusic.net)
Arnold Schoenberg didn’t faze Opie (hermenaut.org)
George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93 (nytimes.com)

Tags Anton Webern, Art, Composer, Composition, Darmstadt School, Henri Pousseur, Music, Serialism

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