The music of Charles Camilleri

Abstract

Charles Camilleri is a composer whose ideal is the breaking down of the barriers marking off East from West in the hope that the one may succour and enrich the other, the result being a musical language new and at the same time very old, one which will be capable of expressing awareness of and involvement in the contemporary scene whilst never relinquishing the fundamental strength and simplicity of certain archetypal musical formulas to which both Western and Eastern man have been responding for centuries. It is in his embracing of Afro-Asiatic musical philosophies within a European framework, his attempts to encompass the essence of Eastern and Western musical thought in closer unity, that the true originality of Charles Camilleri lies. In this book, one will find some of his early Orchestral works, early piano music, two organ works and some other miscellaneous works.