Slavonic and Romantic Music
Slavonic and Romantic Music

Author: Gerald Abraham

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0571302815

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Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first published in 1968), one of exceptional breadth and fascination. The subjects range from the relationship of Slavonic music to the western world, to detailed essays on figures such as Chopin, Dvorák, Rubinstein and Mussorgsky. A study of realism in Janacek's operas contains a particularly fine analysis of From a House of the Dead and there is an account of the fantastic 'erotic diary' for piano in which Zdenek Fibich, one of the finest nineteenth-century Czech symphonists, recorded the secrets of his love affair with former student and librettist Anezka Schulzová. Gerald Abraham (1904-1988) was a distinguished musicologist, among his official posts those of Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and Assistant Controller of Music at the BBC.

On Russian Music
On Russian Music

Author: Gerald Abraham

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0571307280

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First published in 1939, On Russian Music was conceived by Gerald Abraham as a sequel to his earlier Studies in Russian Music (1935, also in Faber Finds), and complements the previous work in many useful respects. Glinka moves to the forefront via close study of both of his operas. A historical account of the composition of Borodin's Prince Igor enriches the critical study made in the first book. And chapters on Mlada and Tsar Saltan round out Abraham's appreciations of the major operas of Rimsky-Korsakov. There are also critical and historical essays on works by Mussorgsky, Dargomïzhsky, Tchaikovsky and other composers, and analyses that, in their time, threw new light on the programmatic meaning of such well-known compositions as Scheherazade and the Path étique symphony. The book is superbly illustrated with music examples throughout.

Essays on Russian and East European Music
Essays on Russian and East European Music

Author: Gerald Abraham

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780571276745

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Among the first of Gerald Abraham's many books were studies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and his knowledge of Russian literature and culture has provided the key to his extensive research into the history of Slavonic music. Music, for Gerald Abraham, was never merely an artefact to be measured and described - he believed it should be considered in its cultural context. It is remarkable how he enlivens our view of the Russian scene without having lived there for a prolonged period. "Essays on Russian and East European Music" brings together eleven essays on Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian music published in various books and journals over a period of twenty years, and a previously unpublished essay on the operas of Moniuszko.

Opera
Opera

Author: Guy A. Marco

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-05-03

Total Pages: 1037

ISBN-13: 1135578001

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Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.

Studies in Russian Music
Studies in Russian Music

Author: Gerald Abraham

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780571277865

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Brings together critical essays on the most important of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas, and others such as Borodin's "Prince Igor", Dargomizhsky's "Stone Guest", and includes chapters on Glinka, Mussorgsky, Balakirev and Tchaikovsky, illustrated by music examples. This title is suitable for students and lovers of Russian music.