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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.


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It is also very modern indeed in its elegant simplicity and adamant modal integrity being in effect as tight and strong in its way as a twelve-tone work of the Austrian type. 243 for soprano clarinet and piano
1973 - Majnun Symphony (Symphony No. Vartan Symphony (No.

What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism. However the true tally is well over 500 surviving works since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works. He was among the most prolific of 20th century composers his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers.

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