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american composers Elliott Carter James Wierzbicki elliott carter i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 1 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM american Composers A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 2 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM Elliott Carter James Wierzbicki university of illinois press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 3 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM © 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ∞ This book is printed Wierzbicki, James Eugene. Elliott Carter / James Wierzbicki. on acid-free paper. p. cm. — (American composers) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-252-03609-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-252-03609-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-13: 978-0-252-07800-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-252-07800-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Carter, Elliott, 1908– 2. Composers—United States—Biography. I. Title. ml410.c3293w54 2011 780.92—dc22 2010040228 [b] i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 4 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l’habitude le remplit. [The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.] —Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919), translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 5 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 6 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM contents introduction 1 1. Foundations (1908–45) 5 2. Three Seminal Works (1945–51) 32 3. Maturity (1950–80) 50 4. New Directions (1980–2010) 75 Epilogue 97 notes 101 index 117 i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 7 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 8 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM elliott carter i-x_1-126_Wier.indd 9 1/3/11 2:22:23 PM

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