Roland Kayn

Tektra

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For decades when he was immensely productive, Roland Kayn's name was relegated to the footnotes of the history of avant-garde music. A mystery for this organist born in Reutlingen (Germany) in 1933 and died in 2011, who will have heard his works conducted by Boulez or Maderna. His short official biography suggests that his defiance of the ... read more