Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers -- a revised edition of a work previously available only in Hungarian -- gives the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around
the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world. All statements from English-speaking composers -- such as Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Elliott Carter,
Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, Michael Tippett, and Peter Maxwell Davies -- consist of the composers' own carefully chosen words. Prominent European, Latin American,
and Japanese composers include Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Alberto Ginastera, Sofia Guba簿dulina, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Gy繹rgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Krzysztof
Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, and Iannis Xenakis. Further enriched by drawings in which composers attempt to indicate visually what their music sounds like,
Three Questions is a fascinating companion for concertgoers and serious listeners. The Hungarian music publisher B獺lint Andr獺s Varga has spent nearly forty years working for and with composers.
He has published several books, including extensive interviews with Lutoslawski, Berio, and Xenakis.
