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Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 6
"Do you like the sound of moving furniture? If the answer
is yes, String Quartet No. 6 is music for you. Brian Ferneyhough enjoyed
writing not only songs that sound well, but also songs that look well on paper.
As a result, he is thought to be one of the most difficult composers to play on
any instrument." via 5 Weirdest Pieces of Classical Music
"The score itself is part of the presentation: it was
huge, amounting to 800 pages in the lost fair copy, and 2,000 pages in the copy
in the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale; some of the pages were cut and mounted in
the shape of the cross, on cloth and colored paper. The score contains numerous
fold-outs and collages. Some of the performance markings, in addition to the
repairs, were in the composer's own blood."
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