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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Walter Zimmermann (b. 1949) is one of the most interesting figures in German music today, interesting not only because of his own music but also because of his enthusiastic advocacy of a wide range of other musics. In Cologne, where Zimmermann was based from his student days until his recent move to West Berlin, he founded the Beginner Studio where he promoted a concert series that embraced everything from improvisation to minimalism, from the avantgarde to ethnic musics. In particular he used the Beginner Studio as a venue to introduce many of the more ‘experimental’ American composers whose music he had encountered in preparing his book of interviews, Desert Plants.
1 Desert Plants is now only available as part of Insel Musik, Zimmermann's collected writings. Also see TEMPO 154, (09 1985), p. 41Google Scholar, for a review of Morton Feldman Essays edited by Zimmermann.
2 Cage, John, Silence, (1961), p. 39Google Scholar.
3 Zimmermann, Walter, Insel Musik, Cologne (1981), p. 94Google Scholar.
4 Cage, John, op. cit., p. xiGoogle Scholar.
5 Cage, John, For the Birds, London (1981), p. 228Google Scholar.
6 Cage, John, M, London (1973), p. 24Google Scholar.
7 Tomkins, Calvin, Ahend of the game, London (1968), p. 103Google Scholar.
8 Zimmermann, Walter, op. cit., p. 205Google Scholar.