Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter
By Charles Rosen
The composer Elliott Carter will be eighty on December 11, but these dates might mislead one about his place in history. Pierre Boulez, twenty years younger than Carter, has remarked, 'He does not belong in the generation into which he was born; he really belongs to my generation.' It is not just that Carter looks like a man two decades younger than his age, or even that he has produced some of his most important works in the past few years. It is rather that he came into prominence along with men a generation younger than he is, that he is most easily considered critically with the group of composers, above all European, whose work begins in the early 1950s, like Boulez, Stockhausen, and Berio.
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