SKU: BR.BV-326

Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2014

ISBN 9783765103261. 7 x 9.5 inches. German.

An exceptional teacher-student relationshipLuigi Nono and Helmut Lachenmann were bound by an exceptional teacher-student relationship. The 21-year-old student Lachenmann was so impressed by the charismatic avant-garde composer Nono in Darmstadt in 1957 that he went to Venice to study with him. Lachenmann later designated their relationship as steering among cliffs with an intensive exchange of ideas, plans and compositions, personal and artistic crises as well as heated controversies which led to quarrels, to a silence of several years, and, finally, to a lasting friendship. This is documented in letters, dedications, semester reports and lecture texts that are published here for the first time and presented in their proper context.From the press:A book I simply cannot put down (Joerg Widmann).... more than just a moving story whoeverwants to know what an artistic exchange can really mean should read this document (NikolausBrass).An incredibly enlightening documentary (Peter Ruzicka).The reader becomes thewitness of an extremely exciting dialogue between two great composers (Michael Haefliger).