Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T08:19:24.490Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Dušan Martinček: An Introduction to His Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Extract

There is a certain type of composer, a type characteristic of the culture of our century, with its unprecedented complexities and contradictions. This is the slow and painstaking composer, who eschews all self–repetition, producing a limited number of works. Each one of these works, however, will be a work of real weight and significance. Henri Dutilleux comes to mind as an example of this type; György Kurtág is another. It can be said that these composers, like Varèse, Webern, Spinner, and Ruggles before them, have given us, in terms of substance, a great deal of music. And so has the Slovak composer Dušan Martinček.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 23 note * From the Music Information Centre of the Slovak Music Fund, Fučikova 29, 811 02 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, except for Animation, from Intermusik Schmülling, Bahnhofstrasse 55, 4708 Kamen, Germany.

page 27 note * All excerpts are reproduced with the permission of the composer.