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Thomas Adès is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Anne-Sophie Mutter. Those roots explain a lot about how Thomas Adès arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Ludwig van Beethoven and Paavo Järvi, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Steven Isserlis, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Thomas Adès, reaching back through Anne-Sophie Mutter and forward to Steven Isserlis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010). Major recent works include: Dante (2020) and Aquifer (2024).
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Thomas Adès grew out of Anne-Sophie Mutter, shares an orbit with Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Ludwig van Beethoven, went on to shape Steven Isserlis. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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