daniel schröder frank zappa – the composer
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Daniel Schröder
Frank Zappa – The Composer
2017 • 132 Seiten • 13,3 × 20,5 cm • kartoniert ISBN 978-3-941310-85-819,90 €
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In his first album, Frank Zappa already formu-lated his ambition to become an important com-poser. And not only did he succeed in becoming a unique musical icon but also in developing an unmistakeable style in compositions for large or-chestras or for »The Yellow Shark« project.
But where exactly in the vast field of »New Music« of the 20th century do we encounter the composer Frank Zappa and who else do we hap-
pen upon in his works besides the omnipresent Edgard Varèse? Was John Cage no more than a whimsical mushroom picker for him, and Karl-heinz Stockhausen already in a helicopter off to Sirius? Or have Pierre Boulez’ serialism or Con-lon Nancarrow’s punched holes left more dots on the map of Zappa’s musical cosmos? What was conventional about Zappa’s music, and what was innovative? And, did Zappa really refuse to die?
Daniel Schröder (*1977) studied musicology in Marburg, Germany, and Jazz in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His profound interest in contempo-rary music evolved as a result of his intensive studies
of the bass clarinet with Wolfgang Styri (Ensemble Modern). With his band Dasch2, Daniel himself embarks on a fantastic journey into zappaesque realms (quadratisch-rekords.de).