Jeffrey Arlo Brown

The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey (eBook, ePUB)

Delirium and Form

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor came together to form the musical genre known as spectralism. The French composer Gérard Grisey (1946-98) changed the course of music history with his small but potent output. Labeled "spectral" music, his compositions looked to the physics of sound and the capacities of human perception for material and inspiration. Born in Belfort, Grisey was the son of a French Resistance veteran turned car mechanic and a homemaker. His first instrument was as humble as his background: the accordion. But Grisey rose from his provincial background to the heights of his profession. This first biography of Grisey traces his journey from rigid Catholicism to broader mysticism; his studies in Olivier Messiaen's legendary composition class; the development of the first "spectral" works in the 1970s; Grisey's stint teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, during which he suffered severe depression; the development of his late, post-spectral style; and his untimely death at the age of 52, shortly after completing his masterpiece on death, the Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold. Drawing on original archival research, interviews with more than fifty of Grisey's colleagues, friends, and lovers, and the study of previously overlooked sketches, this biography shows the delirium and form at the heart of Grisey's life and art-the structured sensuality that allowed him to revolutionize the music of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805430711
• Artikelnr.: 68339893

Autorenporträt

JEFFREY ARLO BROWN is a journalist living in Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1. The Lost Voice (1946
1961) 2. The Carnal Shell (1961
1965) 3. The Rhythm of Love (1965
1967) 4. Exchange Beyond Language (1968
1970) 5. The Silence that Attracts (1970
1972) 6. The Sensual Embrace (1972
1974) 7. Ultimate Fusion (1974
1978) 8. Astarte (1978
1979) 9. Extreme Pleasure, Extreme Pain (1980
1982) 10. The Grains of Sound (1982
1986) 11. Absolute Love (1986
1988) 12. Seduced by the Star (1988
1991) 13. Suggestions of the Infinite (1991
1996) 14. Nut (1996
1998) 15. Berceuse Bibliography Index