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• ISBN: 0801415454
• Physical Description: 286 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
• Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1982.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Illustrations -- Publisher's note -- Introduction -- Chronology -- First works -- German music in the 1940's and 1950's -- The bourgeois artist -- Naples -- The message of Music -- Visconti and opera production -- Castelli Romani -- Music as a means of resistance -- instrumental composition -- Gustav mahler -- Second piano concerto -- experiments and the avant-garde -- Does music have to be political? -- Art and the revolution -- Second violin concerto -- The task of revolutionary music -- musical life in Cuba -- Signs -- Opera belongs to all -- A new journal -- Music for Edward Bond's orpheus -- Benjamin Britten -- Paul Dessau - The Montepulciano cantieri, 1976-80 -- A letter to young artists.

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Henze, Hans Werner, 1926-
Composers > Germany > Biography.
Music and state.
Music.