Xenakis and the Echoes of War
Xenakis and the Echoes of War
Author(s): Christoph Von BlumroderSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Art
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: Iannis Xenakis; “Diamorphoses”; “Nuits”; “Pour la paix”; “Bohor”; semantics of music, war; nuclear escalation;
Summary/Abstract: Iannis Xenakis was among those European artists whose youth was overshadowed by the Second World War. He is a prominent example of a composer being for his lifetime influenced and determined in his character and musical work by experiences of barbaric dictatorship, ideological terror, and military destruction. And these experiences became transformed into the semantics of his musical compositions.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series VIII: Performing Arts
- Issue Year: 15/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 39-44
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English