Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers

This introduction to a challenging contemporary composer delves into the theory and philosophy of repetition.

The work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang eludes easy categorization. While rooted simultaneously in DJ culture, free jazz, pop culture, and the Austro-European new music scene, his oeuvre explicitly foregrounds repetition. He is, in his own words, a “repeat offender.”

Bernhard Lang serves as a critical guide to the composer’s music and traces the phenomenon of repetition througho...