![]() 1, subtitled “Between the National and the Bristol,” was premiered in 1985 at the Vienna Festival by the Arditti Quartet, and recorded the following year for the ECM label on the CD Three Viennese Dancers. As an example of Bryar’s work in traditional genres, his String Quartet No. His approach was less postmodern than “posthistorical,” in David Christoffel’s word. From then on he undertook to revisit the nine centuries of the history of Western music, from Pérotin and Palestrina to Anton Webern, Tōru Takemitsu, and Bill Evans, via Franz Schubert, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Richard Wagner, and Camille Saint-Saëns. In his first opera, Medea, staged in 1984 by Bob Wilson at the Opéra de Lyon, Bryars expressed his love for the post-Romanticism of Richard Strauss, Ferruccio Busoni, and Alexander Zemlinsky. The beginning of the 1980s marked a new point in Bryar’s career. Following their example, he founded his own ensemble in 1981, and in 2001 he created his own record label, GB Records. Bryars was very close to the composers of the minimalist movement. In 1975, a recording of The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) and Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971) was released on Brian Eno’s Obscure Records label, quickly bringing Bryars international fame. His first compositions were influenced by Fluxus and conceptual art they often incorporate magnetic tape and consist in text instructions for the performer to execute. ![]() In 1972, he took over the management of the Experimental Music Catalogue founded by Christopher Hobbs, until its closure in 1981. Starting in 1969, he taught at Portsmouth College of Art, where he was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra mixing musicians and non-musicians and whose iconoclastic re-readings of the classical repertoire were unexpectedly successful. ![]() He studied with John Cage in the United States and with two figures of British experimental music, the composer Cornelius Cardew and the pianist John Tilbury. In 1966, he turned away from both double bass and improvisation to focus on composition. With guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley, he formed the Joseph Holbrooke Trio in 1964, a leading European free jazz group. He then discovered jazz and began learning the double bass while studying philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Gavin Bryars took piano lessons until the age of 18.
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