Korean-German composer, Isang Yun[1917~1995], his life and music reflect major upheaval of the Cold War in Asia and Europe, and who strove to combining East Asian performing practice with European instruments, expressing his Eastern, specifically Taoist, imagination in contemporary Western musical terms. Wounded Dragon is Isang Yuns biography written in dialogue form by the German novelist, Luise Rinser[1911~2002]. Rinser was Yuns friend and could understand his political suffering because she also had received a death sentence, for high treason under Nazism. She interviewed Yun, and taped and wrote in shorthand his additional somewhat parenthetical comments. It was originally published in 1977 by S. Fischer in German and Japanese version of it appeared in 1980.
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Preface
Introduction
Foreword
Chapter 1 Childhood in Korea
Chapter 2 Youth in Korea and Japan
Chapter 3 Childhood in Korea
Chapter 4 Studies and the first successes
Chapter 5 Kidnapping
Chapter 6 Release and new start
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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German Text by Luise Rinser
English Translation by Jiyeon Byeon
The translator to English version, Dr. Byeon Jiyeon is a member of board of directors in the Musicological Society of Korea, and is giving lectures in Sungshin Womens Univ. in Seoul. She received her PhD in musicoloy-ethnomusicology from the Kent State University, MA in musicology from Western Illinois University, MA and BA from Sungshin Womens University, and graduated Seoul Art High School (piano). Her publications include "Mendelssohns Fingals Cave Overture," "Musical Text of Kwangju massacre: Yuns Exemplum in memoriam Kwangju," "Study of Jin Kyu-youngs Meditation," "Korean Music in the 1960s with the case study of Chung Heo-hap, and Lee Sang-geuns piano works"
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