The Last Romantic in His Own Words
The Last Romantic in His Own Words

Author: James A. Grymes

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-12-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0197769217

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Last Romantic in His Own Words presents the selected writings and interviews of Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. These texts shed new light on Dohnányi's singular aesthetics, as well as on his career as a charismatic and at times controversial public figure who was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, particularly in Hungary. The book facilitates a much-needed reevaluation of a public figure and private individual caught up in the web of twentieth-century politics, resulting in a picture that is more complete than ever of one of the most elusive musicians of the twentieth century.

Nineteenth-Century Music
Nineteenth-Century Music

Author: Bennett Zon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1351556304

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This selection of essays represents a wide cross-section of the papers given at the Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music held at the University of Bristol in 1998. Sections include thematic groupings of work on musical meaning, Wagner, Liszt, musical culture in France, music and nation, and women and music.

Concerto No. 6
Concerto No. 6

Author: Louis Spohr

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781457470974

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

One of the leading composers of instrumental music of the early Romantic period, Louis Spohr was a violinist, composer, and conductor. In addition to symphonic works, string quartets, and other solo and chamber music, he composed operas, operettas, and songs. There has been a trend, starting in the late 20th century, to revive his instrumental works and songs.

Mendelssohn, Time and Memory
Mendelssohn, Time and Memory

Author: Benedict Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1139501364

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Focusing on Mendelssohn's innovative development of cyclic form, Taylor investigates how the composer was influenced by the aesthetic and philosophical movements of the period. This is of key importance not only for reconsideration of Mendelssohn's work and its position in nineteenth-century culture, but also more generally concerning the relationship between music, time and subjectivity. One of very few detailed accounts of Mendelssohn's music, the study presents a new and provocative reading of the meaning of the composer's work by connecting it to wider cultural and philosophical ideas.

Charles Villiers Stanford
Charles Villiers Stanford

Author: Jeremy Dibble

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780198163831

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Jeremy Dibble has written a book which adds substantially to Stanford's reputation and which greatly enriches both British and Irish musical scholarship. It is brilliantly done.' -Irish TimesJeremy Dibble presents the first authoritative, comprehensive study of the life and works of Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), one of the most gifted and influential composers. Dibble reveals how, although perhaps best known for his church music, Stanford was also an eminent symphonist, songwriter, and author of many fine choral works. Cosmopolitan, ambitious, and pragmatic, he was untiring in his efforts to advance the cause of British music during its renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century, promoting the music of his contemporaries, and the many pupils he taught at Cambridge and the Royal College of Music, including Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Howells, Bliss, Holst, and Gurney.

Concerto No. 12
Concerto No. 12

Author: Louis Spohr

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781457470998

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

One of the leading composers of instrumental music of the early Romantic period, Louis Spohr was a violinist, composer, and conductor. In addition to symphonic works, string quartets, and other solo and chamber music, he composed operas, operettas, and songs. There has been a trend, starting in the late 20th century, to revive his instrumental works and songs.

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Author: Don Michael Randel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 9780674372993

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.

The Penguin Companion to Classical Music
The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

Author: Paul Griffiths

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-10-07

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 0141909765

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.