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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.

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

Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia

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...

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

edited by Naomi Graber and Marida Rizzuti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Contemporary Composers, 5), pp. xii+278, ISBN 978-2-503-60674-3. Contents The Works of Kurt Weill: Transformations and Reconfigurations...

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...

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...

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,...

Forthcoming Publications

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1). For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine, music has been or...

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...

“O felix Roma”: Palestrina and his Roman Contemporaries