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The Music of Louis Andriessen.(Book Review)
Edited by Maja Trochimczyk. (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, 7.) New York: Routledge, 2002. [xii, 327 p. ISBN 0-8153-3789-2. $85.] Music examples, illustrations, discography, index.
Louis Andriessen is one of the most important living composers of Western art music. Call that a bias--a bias that the reviewer shaves with Maja Trochimczyk, editor of the present book, The Music of Louis Andriessen. For those who share such high regard for this composer's music, publication of this varied compilation devoted to the composer and his work is a highly significant milestone, for it is the first book-length study available in the United States on the subject. ...
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