Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Looking for classical-sounding modern composers Message-ID: <1206@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 12:45:13 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1206 Posted: Mon Oct 29 12:45:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Oct-84 00:11:38 EST References: <416@hlwpc.UUCP> Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 20 Summary: How modern do you wnat your composers to be? There must be many who would satisfy your requirements, but in general, the older their music is, the easier they are to find. Try: The Hungarian composer Ligeti. Very witty, and not too atonal. (He has a piano piece that begins with the same note, palyed many times in different octaves, for over one minute. It's much mroe interesting than you one can imagine.) Try Stravinsky before he went atonal. He went through a classical period, which emphasizes his unique rhythms, and otherwise tends to sound classical. Example pieces -- the violin sonata, symphony in C. Try Hindemith, the pianoi sonatas, Mathis der maler, or the clarinet, bassoon, viola sonatas, etc. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison