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Harrison Birtwistle [1934-0] British

Rank: 102
Composer (with music)
Contemporary, New Music Manchester

Sir Harrison Birtwistle is a British composer.

Attitude

Quote	Tags	Rank
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.		101
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.		102
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.		103
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.		104
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.		105
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.	Attitude	106
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.		107
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.		108
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!	Attitude	109
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.		110
It's the irrational things that interest me.		111
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.	Attitude	112
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.		113
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.		114
I don't think there is much American music.		115
I didn't have a record player.		116
I always write the pieces I want to write.		117
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.		118
You either are or you're not.		119
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.		120
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.		121
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.		122
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.		123
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.		124
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.		125
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.		126
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.		201
I'm not an architectural composer.		202

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