Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner

Author: Robert Riggs

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1580463436

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In addition to Riggs's extensive interviews with the composer, the biography is documented with Kirchner's colorful correspondence from a roster of luminaries: Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Cone, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Isaac Stern, Roger Sessions, and many others. Excerpts from Kirchner's own elegantly written essays and speeches complete the portrait and reveal his highly personal, romantic view of music as powerful art capable of endowing humanity with an "aesthetic sensibility and protective wisdom, without which we cannot survive." --Book Jacket.


Contemporary World Musicians

Contemporary World Musicians

Author: Clifford Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 3189

ISBN-13: 1135939616

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Music lovers, researchers, students, librarians, and teachers can trace the personal and artistic influences behind music makers from Elton John to Leontyne Price. Individual entries on over 400 of the world's most renowned and accomplished living performers, composers, conductors, and band leaders in musical genres from opera to hip-hop. Also includes an in-depth Index covering musicians of all eras, so that readers can learn which artists, alive or dead, influenced the work of today's most important figures in the music industry.


Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000

Author: D. J. Hoek

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2007-02-15

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1461700795

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This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.


Classical Music

Classical Music

Author: Alexander J. Morin

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1220

ISBN-13: 9780879306380

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Encompassing more than five hundred classical composers past and present, this listener's guide to classical music discusses the best recordings of symphonies, operas, choral pieces, chamber music, and more by the world's leading composers as performed by a variety of outstanding musicians and conductors, and includes essays on the classical repertory, composers, instruments, and more. Original.


Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Author: Allen Shawn

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0300144288

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Chronicles the life and career of the composer and musician, focusing on his range of musical compositions, from "West Side Story" to "Kaddish."


Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire

Author: Maurice Hinson

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 1215

ISBN-13: 0253010233

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Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with more than 250 new composers, this incomparable resource expertly guides readers to solo piano literature and provides answers to common questions: What did a given composer write? What interesting work have I never heard of? How difficult is it? What are its special musical features? How can I reach the publisher? New to the fourth edition are enhanced indexes identifying black composers, women composers, and compositions for piano with live or recorded electronics; a thorough listing of anthologies and collections organized by time period and nationality, now including collections from Africa and Slovakia; and expanded entries to account for new material, works, and resources that have become available since the third edition, including websites and electronic resources. The "newest Hinson" will be an indispensible guide for many years to come.