ALEXANDER GOEHR: BOOK RELEASE: Fings ain’t wot they used t’be”

06 January 2012

Alexander Goehr's new book release contains a comprehensive essay on his oeuvre up to the present by the British music critic and writer Paul Griffiths, an autobiographical-theoretical essay Learning to Compose by Goehr himself as well as the catalogue of music manuscripts in the Alexander Goehr Archive.

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Contents:

  • Werner Grünzweig: In Dialogue with the Past
  • Paul Griffiths: “…es ist nicht wie es war…”. The Music of Alexander Goehr
  • Alexander Goehr: Learning to Compose
  • Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the Alexander Goehr Archive

CD-Supplement

  • Alexander Goehr: Das Gesetz der Quadrille, Op. 41 (1979)
  • Alexander Goehr: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 37 (1975-76)

160 pages, pb., in English, with audio CD