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Contemporary Composers

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Massimiliano Sala and Massimiliano Locanto

The Contemporary Composers Series focuses both on living composers and those who left their mark on the 20th century, leaving a significant legacy to the history of contemporary music. By studying their lives, their writings, and their musical output as well as its reception, the series aims to extend the scope of research with the express purpose of investigating not only the so-called contemporary “classical” composers, but also those who worked in the emerging musical genres of the 20th and 21th century: Jazz, Film Music, Popular Music, etc.
The series will encompass monographs and miscellaneous volumes on select individuals, with a particular focus on their relationships to the environment in which they lived and worked.

Performance, Language and Memory: Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág

Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Contemporary Composers, 7) György Kurtág, who is still active at the age of 99,...

«I Don’t Belong Anywhere»: György Ligeti at 100

edited by Wolfgang Marx, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Contemporary Composers, 4), pp. xii+288, ISBN 978-2-503-60240-0. Contents --- The present volume has been made possibile by the friendly support...

The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti

edited by Daniela Tortora, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Contemporary Composers, 3), pp. xxiv+604, ISBN: 978-2-503-58952-7. Contents   The première of Sylvano Bussotti’s La Passion selon Sade occurred fifty years ago in...

Giacinto Scelsi: Music across the Borders

edited by Federico Celestini, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Contemporary Composers, 2), pp. xxx+416, ISBN 978-2-503-58644-1. Contents under the auspices of the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi The opening of the archive of...

John Williams. Music for Films, Television, and the Concert Stage

edited by Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Contemporary Composers, 1), pp. xxiv+440, ISBN 978-2-503-58034-0. Contents Once mostly considered a commercial composer and a mere rewriter of...

Forthcoming Publications

Genre and the Production of Gendered Identity on the Lyric Stage

edited by Mark Everist and Jennifer Walker, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 55). The lyric stage is a cultural site at which constructions of gender...

Early Music Pedagogy Then and Now from the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance

editing by Marcello Mazzetti and Livio Ticli, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Musica Incarnata: Pedagogy, Performance and Market, 3). This volume explores various aspects of early music...

Music and the Politics of Censorship: From the Fascist Era to the Digital Age

edited by James Garratt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 12). In relation to music, the word censorship immediately calls to mind the totalitarian...

European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings

edited by Charles Edward McGuire, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57). As music moved from the church and court into the public sphere, competitions –...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57) The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was...

New Releases

Journal of Music Criticism 8 (2024)

Registered Tribunale di Lucca - RG n. 1323/2017 | ISSN 2532-9995 | © Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. All rights reserved. Discussing (Neo)Classicism...

Remapping the Classics: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in Spain during the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Miguel Ángel Marín and Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 54), pp. x+356, ISBN: 978-2-503-61557-8. Contents This publication is the first to...

Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia

edited by Delphine Vincent, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Contemporary Composers, 6), pp. xx+354, ISBN 978-2-503-61185-3. Contents A major figure in the world of contemporary music, Max Richter...

Musical Exoticism. The Mediterranean and Beyond in the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Michael Christoforidis and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Speculum Musicae, 53), pp. xii+402, ISBN 978-2-503-61177-8. Contents The sound image of Otherness has been a...