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Scribbling tinklers?

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« on: July 23, 2009, 02:58:29 am »

Many composers have written torrents of words about their own music and that of others. Schumann Liszt and Wagner were perhaps among the first, and in the twentieth century almost all of them did: Schoenberg, Messiaen, Xenakis, Murail, Krenek, Bainton, Bax, Busoni, Boulez, Babbitt, D'Indy, and many many more.

Their subjects ranged equally widely: musical techniques and theories, autobiographies, biographies of others, aesthetics - even the young Stockhausen planned at first to become a novelist.

Their words appeared in printed volumes, articles in journals learned or not, or in mere newspaper reviews.

Others such as Bach Beethoven and Brahms wrote rather less or nothing at all.

This thread then is intended for discussion of all kinds of writing undertaken by all known composers.
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2009, 12:41:24 am »

I'll be sure to bring some Hindemith in tomorrow to quote :)
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2009, 07:52:48 pm »

Prokofiev's autobiography was described by Robert Craft as the best of any composer. It appears in the book Soviet Diary 1927 and Other Writings (Faber, 1991), which is also interesting for including four short stories and a fragment by him. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the man.
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