Developmental channels meander, admit tributaries, accumulate layers of sediment, fork out, and flow onward in ever-new ways.
Andreas Karl, musicologist and author
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Kritzendorf, residence © Klangforum Wien/Giordano De Nisi
Books are points, land-marks, promises, and atmospheres that refer to things beyond themselves.
Peter Paul Kainrath, Intendant Klangforum Wien
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Gesäuse, residence © Klangforum Wien/Giordano De Nisi
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Gesäuse, residence, detail and surroundings © Klangforum Wien/Giordano De Nisi
Language plays such an important part, because it represents an antipode to a musical language – thinking in sounds.
Beat Furrer, composer, conductor, founder of Klangforum Wien
Even in his densest and most agitated music, (…) I can still sense this feeling of yearning …
Vera Fischer, ensemble member Klangforum Wien
The great, successful moments in an opera performance are neither on hand, nor can they be preserved; they always contain the risk of failure.
Beat Furrer, composer, conductor, founder of Klangforum Wien
