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Olga Neuwirth is one of the most successful composers of her generation, not only in Austria but across the globe. She reveals herself to be an very entertaining and intelligent spokesperson of her music, which she describes as being "vivid, labyrinthic, irritating, sometimes dark and hopefully self-ironic." |
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Simeon Pironkoff Simeon Pironkoff started his career as a conductor of note, whose Ensemble Online has done much for composers here and abroad. More and more he is becoming known as a composer. His sensitive, challenging music hovers above ground in its own microclimate, full of tonal harmony, surprising dissonance and sonic invention. This is a composer to watch. |
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Johannes Maria Staud Staud's whole manner is of lightness and warmth, and he could effortlessly pass as a DJ. But his compositions show that he hides another world behind this exterior, one full of the riches and depths of the Central European tradition of musical modernism. |
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