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Brian Ferneyhough

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.


— Brian Ferneyhough


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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.


— Brian Ferneyhough


#dint #extended #frequently #only #painful

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?


— Brian Ferneyhough


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Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?


— Brian Ferneyhough


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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.


— Brian Ferneyhough


#although #am #archetypes #correct #doubt






About Brian Ferneyhough






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2111] (1982) (analysis score sample)
(inspired by the "Carceri d'Invenzione by Giambattista Piranesi). Tempo new series no. Jonathan Nott.

His work is characterized by highly complex notation and the extensive use of irregular nested rhythmic tuplets and he is typically considered to be the central figure of the New Complexity movement in music. Ferneyhough taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California at San Diego and currently teaches composition at Stanford University.

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