Gerhard on Music

<p>This title was first published in 2000: Catalan-born composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) left significant legacies - both musical and documentary. Exiled in Cambridge with the onset of the Spanish Civil War he gradually achieved wide recognition by performers and conductors in both Britain and America as a composer whose music was essential to the modern repertoire. In this work Meirion Bowen collects many of the composer's articles reviews lectures and broadcasts to demonstrate the full extent and continuity of Gerhard's artistic and creative thinking. The writings have been arranged thematically to emphasize the evolution of Gerhard's musical interests. His attachment to Spanish and Catalonian traditions broadened into a fascination with folk music of all kinds. His studies with Schoenberg in the mid 1920s gave him the key to his own creative individuality; thereafter his imaginative vitality led him eventually to experiment with electronic and concrete music and he continued breaking new ground even in his final years.</p>