Synopses & Reviews
Finished just weeks before his death, George Rochberg's eloquent memoir offers a detailed look at his fruitful life as a composer, publisher, and teacher of music. The volume traces a life immersed in music, with early study under George Szell and Gian Carlo Menotti and later long-term collaborations with the Concord Quartet and commissions for major orchestras and opera companies. Reflecting on music, aesthetics, colleagues, and the life of the creative mind, Five Lines, Four Spaces: The World of My Music captures not only the spirit but also the intellectual climate of the twentieth-century musical world.
Synopsis
The candid, insightful memoir of a maverick American composer and publisher
About the Author
George Rochberg (1918-2005) was an influential composer, scholar, and publisher of music. He served as director of Theodore Presser Publishing Company (1951-60) and as chair of the Music Department at the University of Pennsylvania (1960-68), and he was the author of the award-winning The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth Century Music.