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Portraits of a Sonata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Bill Hopkins
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Travelling to Paris in September 1964, the French Government having enabled me to present myself at the Conservatoire as a prospective pupil of Messiaen, I brought with me the ambition to meet Jean Barraque. He was, above all else, the composer of a Sonata, to a recording of which I had listened repeatedly, intently, and with an overwhelming apprehension of living greatness. If music meant anything today, only here was that meaning fully grasped, and it was to a like ideal that my own work falteringly aspired.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 186 , September 1993 , pp. 13 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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