Marjan Mozetich

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As a young piano student in Hamilton, Ontario, Marjan Mozetich discovered the world of European avant-garde art music at the local library. He was fascinated by what he heard and, it seemed, hooked for life. A few years later, while studying composition at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, Mozetich found himself in conflict with his professors, whose views on what constituted contemporary music he considered rather conservative. After graduating in 1972, the young freelance composer co-founded ARRAY (now ARRAYMUSIC), a group dedicated to performing and promoting the works of younger Canadian composers. In his own music, Mozetich experimented with virtually the entire palette of contemporary compositional techniques, from pieces written in graphic notation, to those that called for the banging of chairs in addition to more conventional means of producing sound. Small wonder, then, that eyebrows rose the early 1980s, when Mozetich, card-carrying member of the avant-garde, suddenly embraced Romanticism. Viewed at a distance of nearly two decades, the shift is less sudden than it then appeared. In fact, Mozetich had been concerned for some time that his music was not reaching an audience, and, that if no one wanted to hear it, it had very little reason to be. In the mid-1970s, while on a Canada Council-founded European study tour, Mozetich took part in a master class with the Italian composer Franco Donatoni at Siena. The young Canadian dared to espouse the notio

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Marjan Mozetich: Affairs of the Heart

Mozetich: Affairs of the Heart - the Music of Marjan Mozetich

Mozetich, M.: Lament in the Trampled Garden

Louie / Mozetich / Barnes: Canadian Harp Music

Mozetich: Procession

Feast - The Music Of Bill Douglas And Friends

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Affairs of the Heart

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Minds

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Marjan Mozetich: The Complete Piano Music

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