I just got an email by MusikTexte inviting me to contribute to a little Metzger obituary,
so at least something happens.
Suhrkamp should at least re-publish "Musik wozu?" ...
Harald Muenz
Lecturer in Music
Centre for Contemporary Music Practice (CCMP)
Brunel University
School of Arts - Music
www.haraldmuenz.de
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Von: Discussion list on music since 1900 im Auftrag von Ian Pace
Gesendet: Mi 28.10.2009 09:27
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Betreff: Re: Heinz-Klaus Metzger
A very sad loss indeed. As a thinker, Metzger supplied a vital imput for
avant-garde music ever since he challenged Adorno's essay 'Das Altern der
Neue Musik' in the 1950s (though Metzger later said that Adorno's views on
this subject were ahead of their time). Metzger's creation and editing of
the Musik-Konzepte series together with Rainer Riehn is a crowning
achievement, leading to a huge number of invaluable volumes on music old and
new. But Metzger was insufficiently valued more widely, and never, I think,
achieved the level of financial security he deserved, encountering terrible
problems just maintaining a place to live in his later years.
Suhrkamp have been promising to release their volume of the Adorno-Metzger
correspondence for some time - let's hope they now do so soon.
Ian
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From: "Björn Heile" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:31 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [MUSIC-SINCE-1900] Heinz-Klaus Metzger
> Dear all,
>
> News has reached me that Heinz-Klaus Metzger has died. Here's an obit in
> the FAZ (I doubt that any English-language paper has covered that):
> <http://www.faz.net/s/Rub4D7EDEFA6BB3438E85981C05ED63D788/Doc~E91C868861FD646ABB2B0D52C6DAB9B69~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html>
>
> Best,
>
> Björn
>
> --
> Dr Björn Heile
> Senior Lecturer in Music, Head of Department
> Department of Music
> School of Media, Film and Music
> University of Sussex
> Brighton
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