Jeffrey Arlo Brown publishes the first biography of French spectralist composer Gérard Grisey. Today sees the release through the University of Rochester Press of The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey. Delirium and Form, the first biography of the French composer Gérard Grisey (Belford, 1946-Paris, 1998), one of the pioneers…

EDA Libros publishes Ilia Galán’s “Conversations with Luis de Pablo”. Luis de Pablo (Bilbao, 1930-Madrid, 2021) has been one of the most important musical figures in the history of our country. And it is necessary to remember this and insist on the evidence. Together with Cristóbal Halffter and Carmelo Bernaola,…

The German publisher Benevento releases the biographie of composer Wolfgang Rihm. In recent months, the German publisher Benevento Publishing has published Wolfgang Rihm: Über die Linie [Wolfgang Rihm: Above the Line], a biography of the composer Wolfgang Rihm (Karlsruhe, 1952) written by the music journalist Eleonore Büning, music critic for…

Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas publishes his cathartic autobiography, having been born into a Nazi-supporting family. The Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas (Graz, 1953) has just published his autobiography, Durch vergiftete Zeiten: Memoiren eines Nazibuben [Through Poisoned Times: Memoirs of a Nazi Child], in which he describes the complex history…

Scottish BBC Radio 3 journalist Kate Molleson publishes “Sound Within Sound”, a book on 20th century composers to discover. In the introduction to the book Sound Within Sound (Faber & Faber), her author, the British music journalist and BBC broadcaster Kate Molleson, explains that it was the American composer George…

Cambridge University Press publishes Robert F. Waters’ “The Stage Works of Philip Glass”, the first analysis to focus on the American composer’s stage output. Cambridge University Press has just published The Stage Works of Philip Glass by Robert F. Waters, the first analysis to focus on the American composer’s stage…

The publishing house Peu de Mosca publishes a series of articles by Spanish composer Joan Magrané, with his more personal “Sentimental Anthology of Catalan Music”. A few weeks ago, the new publishing house Peu de Mosca published Antologia Sentimental de la Música Catalana [a sentimental anthology of catalan music], a…

Wolke-Verlag publishes “VOCAL Adventures” by avant-jazz singer and teacher Lauren Newton. Lauren Amber Newton (Coos Bay, Oregon, 1952) is an American avant-garde jazz and free improvisation singer better known in German-speaking European countries than in the United States as one of the founders of the Vienna Art Orchestra – Vienna’s…

David Bernabo publishes his conversations with (and about) composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny. American composer and pianist “Blue” Gene Tyranny (San Antonio, Texas, 1945-Long Island, New York, 2020) died on 12 December 2020 of complications from diabetes. He was an extraordinarily eclectic musician, who played with Iggy Pop – they met…

“Exploring Xenakis”, by Alfia Nakipbekova, in commemoration of the Xenakis centenary. Although originally published in 2019 by the American academic book publisher Vernon Press, the fact that 2022 marks the centenary of Iannis Xenakis is a good occasion to bring back the essay Exploring Xenakis, conducted by Kazakh cellist and…

Urbanomic publishes Mattin Artiach’s essay on his performance “Social Dissonance”. Social Dissonance was, first of all, the title of the artistic/musical project with which the Spanish artist and composer Mattin Artiach (Guecho, Vizcaya, 1977) participated in 2017 in documenta 14, the fourteenth edition of the artistic event held every five…

Published a book of “Conversations” between Steve Reich and nearly twenty musicians. Steve Reich is one of the world’s leading composers and his figure, at the age of 85, continues to grow, with works such as Traveler’s Prayer, composed in Los Angeles in 2020, during the worldwide confinement imposed by…