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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.

«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...

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...

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...

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...

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

edited by Benjamin R. Levy, Turhout, Brepols, 2026 (Contemporary Composers, 8), pp. xxii+292, ISBN 978-2-503-62471-6. Contents There is something inscrutable about Morton Feldman. His music resists...

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

Twentieth-Century Music Criticism and Racial Discourses

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 14). In recent decades, the relationship between music and criticism has been a key...

New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello

edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae) This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...

New Releases

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5. Contents The figurative arts — or the...

The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0. Contents This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...

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...

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,...