Michael Finnissy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1379210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Finnissy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Finnissy |
| SIGNATURE | FINNISSY M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Michael Zev Gordon and Michael Finnissy in Conversation
In this article, the composers Michael Zev Gordon and Michael Finnissy discuss personal and practical approaches to text-setting in relation to prevailing critical orthodoxies. Michael Zev Gordon considers the text as a midwife to the music with reference to Alan Bennett's play The Habit of Art and Virgil Thomson's study Music with Words, outlines his use of texts in his piece This Night and his collaboration with poet Ruth Padel, Allele, and con…
Biting the hand that feeds you
Michael Finnissy, the English pianist and composer associated with the "New Complexity" movement, discusses his development as a performer and the relation of his performing to his compositional aesthetic. A founding member of the ensemble Suoraan (today, Ensemble Exposé), Finnissy describes the new music world of London in the 1970s and 1980s and describes in detail the challenges that remain for new music players today, ranging from acquiring f…
Multivalent Late-Modernist
Voices of Today
New Music 89
Modern Cello
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Modern Cello
New Music 89
Voices of Today
Multivalent Late-Modernist
Biting the hand that feeds you
Michael Finnissy, the English pianist and composer associated with the "New Complexity" movement, discusses his development as a performer and the relation of his performing to his compositional aesthetic. A founding member of the ensemble Suoraan (today, Ensemble Exposé), Finnissy describes the new music world of London in the 1970s and 1980s and describes in detail the challenges that remain for new music players today, ranging from acquiring f…
Michael Zev Gordon and Michael Finnissy in Conversation
In this article, the composers Michael Zev Gordon and Michael Finnissy discuss personal and practical approaches to text-setting in relation to prevailing critical orthodoxies. Michael Zev Gordon considers the text as a midwife to the music with reference to Alan Bennett's play The Habit of Art and Virgil Thomson's study Music with Words, outlines his use of texts in his piece This Night and his collaboration with poet Ruth Padel, Allele, and con…
Art (6 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Biting (1 works) · Cello (1 works)