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Scope and Contents Wikiipedia: Dieter Schnebel (born 14 March 1930 in Lahr/Baden) is a composer. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste.Schnebel has become one of the many important postmodern composers through a unique craft, challenging our definitions of music, its limits, and even its unusual sound capabilities from humans themselves. But before developing into a professional expresser of music as an art form, Schnebel underwent vigorous studies in various fields.He began with a general private music study with Wilhelm Sibler from 1942 until 1945, when he started piano lessons with Wilhelm Resch, and continued study with him until 1949 at the age of 19. He continued then with music history through 1952, under Eric Doflein. Simultaneously he began composition (in 1950) under several musicians, including Ernst Krenek, Theodor W. Adorno, and Pierre Boulez. This led to his attendance at the University of Tubingen,...

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Phillips comments about this work in Works and Texts 1992, " Although at its first performance in the Cheltenham Festival (1969) dedicated to Stuart Dempster, it was described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph as providing him with 'the most boring fifteen minutes of my life' (little did he know what the eighties would bring his way). I find it as tense to play in as it hopes to be soothing to hear. The first performance was sung by John Tilbury, Moray Walsh and Tom Phillips on BBC3 Music in Our Time in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was designed by Blair Seagram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.