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Born in Clarecastle, County Clare, Republic of Ireland, he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel. Unusual for its lack of real development, Barry's music shifts between blocks of thematic material, often without any reason or preparation. There is an element of humour in his music, using titles such as '_____' and 'Bob', ending in unexpected places and shifting from avant-garde styles to rhythms reminiscent of Irish folk music. His operatic style is modelled on that of G.F. Handel and his theatrical gestures often embrace sexual and erotic themes in bombastic ways. Quite often the structure of Gerald Barry's music happens at a medium-high level, such that long streams of similar durations and dynamics switch suddenly to a different type as though 'changing gear', with the pathos being in the contrast and in the micro-resemblances of harmonic/melodic material across the boundaries of these contrasting regions. Like Handel and Mozart he often conceives of material independently of its instrumental medium, recycling ideas from piece to piece as in the reworking of "Triorchic Blues" from a violin to piano piece. He is a particular specialist in writing for the counter-tenor voice. County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... Mauricio Kagel (born Buenos Aires, December 24, 1931) is an Argentine composer who has lived in Germany for most of his career. ... HANDEL was the code-name for the UKs National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...

His works include:

Operas

• The Intelligence Park (1990)
• The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit, originally written for television (1991-2)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (opera) (2005) to the play by Fassbinder (also, independently, the basis of a film of the same name)

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Selected other works

• The Conquest of Ireland
• The Eternal Recurrence, a setting of Nietzsche for voice and orchestra
• Wiener Blut
• Dead March
• Piano Quartet 1 and 2 (for the Ives Ensemble)
• Chevaux de Frise
• White Bird Featherless (for the Siobhan Davies ballet company, broadcast on BBC television in 1995)

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Sources

• operone
• Gerarld Barry Biography