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Contemporary Composers

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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.

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...

«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...

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), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.           Contents The present volume has been made possibile...

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...

Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia

edited by Delphine Vincent, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Contemporary Composers, 6), pp. xx+354, ISBN 978-2-503-61185-3. Contents A major figure in the world of contemporary music, Max Richter...

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...

In Search of Morton Feldman. A Portrait of the Composer at 100

edited by Benjamin R. Levy, Turhout, Brepols, 2026 (Contemporary Composers, 8). There is something inscrutable about Morton Feldman. His music resists analysis, first through...

Forthcoming Publications

Music and the Figurative 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 —...

Abbonizio, Isabella. Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy: Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation

Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism and Politics, 13). This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of the role of music within the context of Italian...

Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures

edited by Joan Grimalt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 3). Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures offers a fresh exploration of musical rhetoric, moving beyond traditional...

Music in Unconventional Venues of Nineteenth-Century Europe

edited by Francesc Cortès and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 60). During the 19th century, music thrived in a variety of private and...

The Composer-Conductor Figure between the 19th and 20th Centuries

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 61). Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many great musicians served as both composers and conductors,...

New Releases

«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), pp. xx + 480, ISBN: 978-2-503-62185-2. Contents This volume offers...

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1), ISBN 978-2-503-62191-3, pp. xvi+378. Contents For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...

Franco Sciannameo, The Journey of Phil Trajetta: From Italian Political Prisoner to Free American...

Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Studies on Italian Music History, 20), pp. xiv+288, ISBN: 978-2-503-61565-3. Contents This new monograph synthesizes and contextualises the details surrounding the life and...

Remapping the Classics: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in Spain during the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Miguel Ángel Marín and Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 54), pp. x+356, ISBN: 978-2-503-61557-8. Contents This publication is the first to...