SKU: BR.BV-364
Texts on the Music
1975-2003 - 2nd Revised
and Extended Reissue.
Composed by Hans Zender.
Edited by Jorn Peter
Hiekel. Hardback.
Buchverlag Breitkopf &
Hartel (Music Books).
Hans Zender is
regarded as one of the
most important composers
and conductors of his
generation. However, he
has also written a great
deal about music.
Music post-1945; New
music (post-2000). Book.
404 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #BV 364.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.BV-364).
ISBN 9783765103643.
6.5 x 9.5
inches.
Since the
first edition appeared,
the response to Hans
Zender's works in the
music life of the present
has gratifyingly
continued to increase.
The same applies to the
musicological analysis of
Zender's work as well as
also to Zender's texts on
music. Perhaps the
present volume has
contributed to some
extent to all of this.
Therefore, it is all the
more gratifying that this
book, containing some of
Zender's central texts
and even having almost
the character of a
complete edition of the
writings from 1975 to
2003, can now be
presented in a new
expanded issue. Here,
there are various
substantial additions,
referring above all to
texts on compositions of
the last 15 years whose
consideration should give
additional heft to this
volume. (Jorn Peter
Hiekel) Hans Zender is
regarded as one of the
most important composers
and conductors of his
generation. However, he
has also written a great
deal about music. The
scope of his texts is
very broad - from
theoretical and
analytical writings and
essays to critiques,
glosses and even a radio
play. This volume, which
features all of his major
texts, is practically a
complete edition. It can
be seen as a basis for an
in-depth approach to the
multi-faceted
compositional oeuvre and
multi-layered
intellectual world of
Hans Zender. The texts
repeatedly turn to
fundamental aspects or
take up elements that are
primarily related to the
works of other composers.
One of the book's
fundamental texts,
Gegenstrebige Harmonik,
is a kind of new,
microtonal harmony method
that draws some
remarkable consequences
from the history of
composition since
Antiquity.Bibliography:Hi
ekel, Jorn Peter:
Vielstimmig in sich. Zu
einigen Kernaspekten in
Hans Zenders Schaffen,
in: Hans Zender.
Vielstimmig in sich,
hrsg. von Werner
Grunzweig, Jorn Peter
Hiekel und Anouk Jeschke
(= Archive zur Musik des
20. und 21. Jahrhunderts,
Band 12), Hofheim: Wolke
2008, pp. 13-28..