Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Duchesneau, Louise
• Bauer, Amy
• Kerékfy, Márton

Titel

'... Music is a bit like love - you do it, but you don't talk about it'

Ist Teil von

• György Ligeti's Cultural Identities, 2018, p.39-50

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From 19 November 1962 to 22 February 1963, the well-known music critic and eminent authority on contemporary music Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt hosted a series of 12 lectures given by some of the day's most respected composers. These were broadcast live by the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB - Radio Free Berlin) from the Congress Centre in Berlin on consecutive Monday nights at 6 pm. The title of the series was Musik im technischen Zeitalter, and Ligeti was Stuckenschmidt's last guest, on 22 February 1963. This historical lecture took place at a time when 'elite' new music was still backed by benevolent political forces, when there was still an 'excessive support for this small group'. It may be difficult for us to fathom how what was then and still is today a niche became the powerful post-war musical avant-garde of Darmstadt and Cologne. For those of us who were fortunate enough to witness the unique charm of Ligeti's labyrinthine talks in later years, this film will come as a sudden reminder of how endearing and entertaining he could be. For others, it will be an incomparable discovery. From 19 November 1962 to 22 February 1963, the well-known music critic and eminent authority on contemporary music Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt hosted a series of 12 lectures given by some of the day's most respected composers. Born in 1901, Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt was one of the last witnesses of those unique days when Berlin was the musical capital of the world. He knew and admired Arnold Schoenberg, attended in 1925 the premiere of Wozzeck in Berlin, and met and befriended such contrasting personalities as George Antheil and Igor Stravinsky. Post-war Germany's occupation by France, Great Britain, the United States and Russia ended after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. After Stuckenschmidt presents the evening's guest, Ligeti launches into a long and animated introduction during which he mentions the pros and cons of composers speaking about their own music. Ligeti and Adorno did eventually sort out their differences.