The Music of Louis Andriessen is a collection of interviews and essays about this avant-garde composer. This book presents the musician in dialogue with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators: Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schonberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, writing for the stage and his prevalent interest in mysticism and meaning. This text provides an introduction to his musical language.

'I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole', Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between 'early' and 'late' Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schonberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into 'Russian', 'neoclassical' and 'serial'. In an essay which continually shifts in its approach, style and perspective, the authors elaborate on their...