Fiona Sampson

When atonal music was original and exciting

Alexander Goehr, the sole survivor of the radical Manchester School of Music in the 1960s, describes turning pre-war European tradition into British cutting edge

Alexander Goehr. [Getty Images]

  • Composing a Life: Teachers, Mentors and Models

    Alexander Goehr, with Jack van Zandt

    Carcanet, pp. 262, £30

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