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Works by Iannis Xenakis, Franz Schubert, Juliana Hodkinson, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gerard Grisey

With his Medea senecae , Iannis Xenakis takes an extreme position that can probably only be conveyed today in a careful concert program and with knowledge of his biography. Xenakis, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday on May 29, 2022, is generally considered one of the most important musical pioneers of the 20th century. It is hardly surprising that he also saw himself as a front-line fighter determined to do the utmost: In World War II, Xenakis joined the armed Greek resistance against the Italian-German occupiers. When Churchill reinstated the Greek monarchy in 1944, Xenakis continued to fight in the Greek Civil War, on the side of the communists. He suffered severe injuries from British tank fire, which he barely survived. In 1947 he fled the anti-communist waves of arrest…