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Edited by Felix Meyer and Heidy Zimmermann
Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2006, reprinted with corrections 2007
507 pp. - 24.5 x 28.5 cm
10 digit ISBN: 1-84383-211-9
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-84383-211-9
EUR 39.95 / CHF 69.50
(not available from Schott)
This volume provides a documentation and commentary on the life, works, and impact of Edgard Varèse based on an exhaustive analysis of original sources from his posthumous estate. Designed to accompany the like-named exhibition mounted by the Paul Sacher Foundation and the Museum Tinguely in Basel in 2006, it contains detailed remarks on all the items on display as well as scholarly essays by leading experts from Europe and the United States.
This richly illustrated book contains some 200 mainly color reproductions of manuscripts, letters, and other items from the composer's estate, as well as paintings, drawings, and pieces of sculpture documenting his close ties to figures from the visual arts.
[Documents on Swiss music history, 1900-2000]
Edited by Ulrich Mosch with the assistance of Matthias Kassel, 2000
480 pp., 22.0 x 28.5 cm
ISBN 3-7957-0400-6 (PSB 1011)
EUR 42.- / CHF 72.50
(Series subscription price EUR 35.80 /
CHF 63.-)
The hundredth anniversary of the Swiss Association of Musicians (Schweizerischer
Tonkünstlerverein) provided an occasion for the Foundation to offer
a retrospective view of a century of Swiss music. This volume, designed
to accompany the like-named exhibition, draws on music manuscripts, letters,
photographs, and other documents from the Foundation's own holdings. Besides
a large number of reproductions, it also includes essays by leading authorities
on Swiss music and personal statements from composers.
Italian and French editions:
«Entre Denges et Denezy ...» Documenti sulla storia della
musica in Svizzera 1900–2000, a cura di Ulrich Mosch in collaborazione
con Matthias Kassel (Lucca: LIM editrice s.r.l, 2001).
«Entre Denges et Denezy ... » La musique du XXe siècle
en Suisse, manuscrits et documents, édité par Ulrich Mosch,
en collaboration avec Matthias Kassel (Geneva: Contrechamps, 2001).
Settling New Scores:
Music Manuscripts from the Paul Sacher Foundation
Exhibition catalogue in English
Edited by Felix Meyer, 1998
303 pp., 21 x 28 cm
ISBN 3-7957-0347-6 (ED 8949)
EUR 25.95 / CHF 45.40
(Series subscription price EUR 22.- /
CHF 39.50)
This English publication originally accompanied an exhibition held at
the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, in summer 1998. Here, for the first
time outside of Basel, the Foundation presented a representative cross-section
of its holdings to the educated public. The catalogue contains some eighty
color plates, descriptions of all exhibition items, detailed comments
on more than forty selected works, and several related essays.
Canto d'amore:
Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst 1914-1935
[Classicist modernism in art and music]
Edited by Gottfried Boehm, Ulrich Mosch, and Katharina Schmidt
Berne: Benteli, 1996.
534 pp., 25 x 30 cm
ISBN 3-7204-0089-1
(not obtainable from Schott)
This large catalogue accompanied the like-named exhibition held at the
Basel Kunstmuseum in 1996. It presents a large number of exhibition items
and groups of items in high-quality color plates, concise discussions
of the works involved, and fundamental essays by leading authorities on
facets of «classicism» in modern music and the visual arts,
with side glances at the sister arts of architecture and literature.
English and French editions:
«Canto d'amore. Classicism in Modern Art and Music 1914–1935»
(London: Merrell Holbertson Publishers)
«Canto d'amore. Modernité et classicisme dans la musique
et les beaux-arts entre 1914 et 1935» (Paris: Flammarion)
Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Paul Sacher Stiftung
[Twentieth-century composers in the Paul Sacher Foundation]
Edited by Hans Jörg Jans, 1986
462 pp., 22 x 30 cm
ISBN 3-7957-0029-9 (KB 1001)
EUR 49.95 / CHF 85.50
To celebrate its opening in 1986, the Foundation gave the public a glimpse
into its manuscript holdings by mounting an exhibition in the Basel Kunstmuseum.
This catalogue introduces the composers represented in its collections
at that time. It includes portraits of the composers by leading writers
and color reproductions from their scores, some of them in full-page format.
Strawinsky: sein Nachlass, sein Bild
[Stravinsky: his estate, his image]
Edited by Christian Geelhaar and Hans Jörg Jans, 1984
386 pp., 22 x 28 cm
ISBN 3-7957-0028-0 (KB 1000)
EUR 49.95 / CHF 85.50
Acquired in 1983, the Igor Stravinsky Estate forms a cornerstone of the Foundation's archival holdings. In 1984 it was presented to the public at the Basel Kunstmuseum. The associated catalogue reproduces a large number of musical manuscripts by this calligraphically gifted composer as well as portraits and set designs by his friends and associates.
