| #1971571 in eBooks | 2009-04-17 | 2009-04-17 | File type: PDF||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Generally pretty horrible|By Christopher Culver|Pirkko Moisala's book about Kaija Saariaho, published by University of Illinois Press in 2009, is one of the few monographs on the Finnish composer. Unfortunately, it is a great disappointment.
The problems are legion. For one, it appears that there was little to no real editing of the manuscript. Typos ("the ensemble L|About the Author|
Pirkko Moisala is a professor of musicology at Helsinki University, Finland, and a coeditor of the anthology Music and Gender.
This book is the first comprehensive study of the music and career of contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho. Born in Finland in 1952, Saariaho received her early musical training at the Sibelius Academy, where her close circle included composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has since become internationally known and recognized for her operas L'amour de loin and Adriana Mater and other works that involve electronic music. Her influences include the spectral analysis...
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