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Conlon Nancarrow

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1. Kindheit und Jugend
2. Studium
3. Krieg in Spanien
4. Heirat mit Annette
5. Erste Erfolge

Geboren am 18. Oktober 1912...

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Preface

The present book may seem a little unusual to some readers as it can be classified neither as a biography nor as a rigorous work of musicology. My primary idea was to write a book that would be easy to read and accessible for a general audience, despite the diverse information it contained, in order to make this important composer known to as large a circle of readers as possible. That was not an easy task: in my journal entries I had documented the weeks I spent with Nancarrow as completely as possible. It was inevitable, on the one hand, that many of the details they contained would be of little interest to a general audience and would not be included here. On the other hand, I had a great deal of information that was important to the reader but was taken from other sources, some of which had already been published, that had to be assessed as well. Finally, it became evident that there were a not a few “gaps” in Nancarrow’s biography—events that he did not wish to discuss himself or had simply forgotten or repressed. Filling in these gaps meant finding eyewitness still alive and asking them for information.

I would likke to thank all those who contributed to the success of this book: above all, my wife, Beatrix, who accompanied me on nearly all the concert tours and trips to Mexico, who provided essential information for this book in the long conversations with Nancarrow and his wife, Yoko, who was always at my side with advice and assistance during its writing. I would also like to thank Yoko Nancarrow for many weeks of pleasant company and for her constant willingness to talk about Conlon’s life. I also owe thanks to all those who told me about their experiences with Nancarrow: his brother, Charles Nancarrow (†); his first wife, Helen Zimbler; his teacher and patron, the Nicolas Slonimsky (†); his second wife, Annette Margolis (†) and her sons, Charles and Luis Stephens and her daughter, Cherry Kaneff; and the publisher Minna Lederman (†). I am grateful to György Ligeti (†), without whose commitment to Nancarrow I might not have met the composer at all and without whose dedicated motivation Nancarrow’s Studies for Two Player Pianos might not have been presented. Finally, I wish to thank Peter Hanser-Strecker of Schott Musik International, who always had an open ear for my preoccupations with Nancarrow. My thanks go out to Hans-Günther Langer and my daughter, Sonja, for reading the proofs and offering helpful comments, and to Heinrich Mehring for his support with many photographic tasks. For generous support that made the publication of the book and CD possible, I wish to thank the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel; Pro Musica Viva—Maria Strecker-Daelen-Stiftung, Mainz; the labels col legno, ECM and WERGO and the radio stations Deutschlandfunk and Südwestrundfunk. I wish to thank Rolf W. Stoll for his extraordinary commitment during the editing of the manuscript, which was surely not always a simple process. Jürgen Hocker

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Überschrift	List of Works Studies for Player Piano The Studies for Player Piano are merely characterized briefly below. Detailed analyses may be found in Kyle Gann, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995
No.1	Circa 1949–50. Published in New Music in 1951 under the title Rhythm Study No. 1. Polyrhythmic composition with more than two hundred time changes.
2a	Circa 1950. Slow blues with two bass parts in tempo ratio of 3:5.
2b	2b (x): Didactic Study of 2a. Same melody line but bass parts in tempo ratio of 5:9, 1980.
2c	2c (y): Didactic Study of 2a. Same melody line but bass parts in tempo ratio of 4:7, 1980.
2d	2d (y): Didactic Study of 2a. Same melody line but bass parts in tempo ratio of 5:7, 1980.

--PlayerpianoJH 19:40, 1. Apr. 2011 (CEST)