Music critic, journalist, and curator Alexey Munipov has brought together in one book 20 in-depth conversations with composers who are very different from one another. For the first time, “Fermata” was published in 2019, and in the 2024 edition these dialogues sound new and, in places, take on a completely different—even radical—meaning. That is because talking about music is an attempt to see what is not directly visible: the nature of a person and the human, the relationship between harmony and chaos, the sense of the end times, and the experience of infinity.
Alexey Munipov writes about music since 1996. He founded the “School of Attentive Listening” and musicalized