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Contemporary Composers

GENERAL EDITORS
Massimiliano Sala and Massimiliano Locanto

The Contemporary Composers Series focuses both on living composers and those who left their mark on the 20th century, leaving a significant legacy to the history of contemporary music. By studying their lives, their writings, and their musical output as well as its reception, the series aims to extend the scope of research with the express purpose of investigating not only the so-called contemporary “classical” composers, but also those who worked in the emerging musical genres of the 20th and 21th century: Jazz, Film Music, Popular Music, etc.
The series will encompass monographs and miscellaneous volumes on select individuals, with a particular focus on their relationships to the environment in which they lived and worked.

Latest

Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia

The Works of Kurt Weill: Transformations and Reconfigurations in 20th-Century Music

Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory

Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7) György Kurtág, who is still active at the age of 99,...

«I Don’t Belong Anywhere»: György Ligeti at 100

edited by Wolfgang Marx, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Contemporary Composers, 4), pp. xii+288, ISBN 978-2-503-60240-0. Contents --- The present volume has been made possibile by the friendly support...

The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti

edited by Daniela Tortora, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Contemporary Composers, 3), pp. xxiv+604, ISBN: 978-2-503-58952-7. Contents The première of Sylvano Bussotti’s La Passion selon Sade occurred fifty years ago in...

Giacinto Scelsi: Music across the Borders

edited by Federico Celestini, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Contemporary Composers, 2), pp. xxx+416, ISBN 978-2-503-58644-1. Contents under the auspices of the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi The opening of the archive of...

John Williams. Music for Films, Television, and the Concert Stage

edited by Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Contemporary Composers, 1), pp. xxiv+440, ISBN 978-2-503-58034-0. Contents Once mostly considered a commercial composer and a mere rewriter of...

Forthcoming Publications

Embodiment in Music and Performance: Practices, Meanings, Histories

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2). This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time, geography, and genre,...

«Sicut in caelo»: Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy

edited by Galliano Ciliberti and Thomas Neal, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Studies on Italian Music History, 21) This volume offers a comprehensive examination of sacred...

Music and the Figuratives Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59). The figurative arts — or the arts that transcribe the visible —...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57) The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was...

Global Histories of Video Game Music Technology

edited by Karen M. Cook, William Gibbons, and Fanny Rebillard, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Science & Technology, 8). This book investigates the global histories of...

Children’s Music in the Nineteenth Century

“O felix Roma”: Palestrina and his Roman Contemporaries