Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. - Brian Ferneyhough

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? - Brian Ferneyhough

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. - Brian Ferneyhough

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. - Brian Ferneyhough

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. - Brian Ferneyhough

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. - Brian Ferneyhough

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