CAROLINE POTTER is Visiting Reader in French Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. With Boydell she published Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World (2016) which was named Sunday Times classical music book of the year.
It's a revelation. -- Tom Service * Music Matters, BBC Radio 3 * While not strictly a biography, Organised Delirium provides interesting insight into the composer-conductor's education - particularly his studies with Messiaen and Leibowitz, his dalliances with writings by René Char and Antonin Artaud, a fascination with the ondes martenot, and the impact that these formative years would have throughout his life. * BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE * Potter shows how analysis, history and aesthetics can be connected in a fascinating and convincing way, while each of the building blocks comes into their own. * OPUS KLASSIEK *