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Elliott Carter: Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents

(October 2008)

A remarkable new book on Elliott Carter has been produced by the Paul Sacher Foundation and is now published by Boydell and Brewer.

A new, lavishly illustrated, large-format book has been published in honour of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday on 11 December 2008. Entitled A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents, this landmark book draws upon manuscripts and letters in the Carter archive at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. There are extensive examples of Carter’s correspondence and other documents, including unpublished writings, colour facsimiles of music manuscripts, and beautifully reproduced photographs.

This body of material forms the main source of the present volume, which traces the biographical, intellectual, and artistic evolution of a composer who, building on American modernism and interacting with the latest developments in Europe, has forged a distinctive, highly sophisticated musical language, and captures his friendships with fellow musicians and friends such as Charles Ives, Nadia Boulanger, John Kirkpatrick, Aaron Copland, Nicolas Nabokov, and more recently, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, Heinz Holliger, Daniel Barenboim, and James Levine.

Considering its richness of information and presentation, the hardback book is on sale at a very generous price of £25.00 from all good bookshops including the Boosey & Hawkes Online Shop.

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