Andesite Press, 2017. — 134 p. — ISBN10: 1375879898, 13 978-1375879897. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
London: Reaction Books, 2010. - 218 p., pix. — ISBN: 978 1 86189759 6. (From the series 'Critical Lives'). French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy's...
Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 052166330X. Stravinsky's work spanned the major part of the twentieth-century and was engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. Reflecting the breadth of his phenomenal achievement, this Companion contains a wide range of essays in three broad sections covering the contexts within which Stravinsky worked-Russian,...
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 366 p. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 313 p. — ISBN10: 1107108578, 13 978-1107108578. Chopin's oeuvre holds a secure place in the repertoire, beloved by audiences, performers, and aesthetes. In Harmony in Chopin, David Damschroder offers a new way to examine and understand Chopin's compositional style, integrating Schenkerian structural analyses with an innovative perspective on...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0691120692; ISBN13: 978-0691120690. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding...
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2002. — 186 p. Introductory Note. Birth — Ancestry — Early Years. Berlin and Vienna. Love Affairs. Out in the Wide World. Paris. The George Sand Episode. Paris Again. England and Scotland. Last Days. Chopin the Man. Chopin as Teacher and Player. Chopin the Composer. The Compositions.
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2002. — 158 p. Introductory Note. Birth, Ancestry, Early Years. Vienna, 1750-1760. Eisenstadt, 1761-1766. Esterhaz, 1766-1790. First London Visit, 1791-1792. Second London Visit, 1794-1795. “The Creation” and “The Seasons”. Last Years. Haydn: the Man. Haydn: the Composer. Appendix A. Haydn’s Last Will and Testament. Appendix B. Catalogue of Works....
Translated from German. — Amadeus Press, 1991, 1997. — 349 p.:ill.:musical examples. Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers. Heller's biography presents the important facets of his life, his works, and his influence on music history The Rediskovery of an "Almost...
PDF Ebook, based on Project Gutenberg (B5 format). — 205 p. First edition: New York, Scribner, 1900. From goodreads.com: James Gibbon Huneker (1857–1921) was a distinguished American newspaper critic, an essayist, and a prolific author. His writing style is remarkable — unrestrained, informal, full of brilliant insight — and this style plus Huneker's wide knowledge of art and...
New York: Yale University Press, 2001. — 343 p.:ill. Popularly known during his lifetime as "The World's Greatest Living Composer," Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century's most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky's two sides--the public persona, preoccupied with his own image and place in...
Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London, 2014. — 201 p. Abstract : This dissertation introduces the ‘Edna Iles’s Medtner Collection’ (EIMC), held by the British Library in London, and provides a detailed analysis of her ‘Notes on the Interpretation of Medtner’s Works’. Nikolay Medtner (1880–1951) was one of Russia’s leading, early-20th-century composers, who spent...
Vintage Digital, 2009. — 309 p.: ill. Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the...
Dover Publications. — Dover Books on Music, 2012. — 547 p.: ill. "I was so impressed by what Dr. Lang has done in his new and very fresh approach to Handel, his life and works, that I can find only one word to express my feeling about it: Monumental!" — Eugene Ormandy. Universally known and admired for his great oratorio Messiah, George Frideric Handel (1695–1759) ranks among...
Author House, 2010. — 652 p. From a personally assembled database of 13,859 classical musicians, What Killed the Great and not so Great Composers delves into the medical histories of a wide variety of composers from both a musical and medical standpoint. Biographies of musicians from Johann Sebastian Bach of the Baroque period to Benjamin Britten of the Modern era explore in...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 321 p.: musical examples: tables — (The master musicians). Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity, color, and a wealth of melody. Yet it...
Princeton University Press, 2003 - 329 p. Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age of 62, and unable to make it even out of the provincial capital of Brno,...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1957. — 278 p. Marc Pincherle's aim is to present the life and music of Vivaldi to those generally musical readers who do not claim specialized knowledge. He has made wide use of contemporary writings which are delightfully evocative of the Venice in which Vivaldi lived and worked. He follows the events of the composer's life and then proceeds to a...
Translated by Abby Langon Alger. — London: George Bell and Sons, 1900. — 276 p. Paternal Home. Leipsic and Heidelberg The Decision and Preparations for an Artistic Career Oppositionals Compositions (op. 1- 23) Betrothal. Songs. Work as a Critic Period of Highest Development Shattered Powers. The Tragic End Schumann's Artistic and literary Rank Chronological list of Schumann's...
London: Novello & Company, Limited; New York: H. W. Gray Co., Sole Agents for the U.S.A., 1899. — 656 p. Johann Sebastian Bach, his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685–1750. By Philipp Spitta. Translated from the German by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland.
London: Novello & Company, Limited; New York: H. W. Gray Co., Sole Agents for the U.S.A., 1899. — 721 p. Johann Sebastian Bach, his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685–1750. By Philipp Spitta. Translated from the German by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland.
London: Novello & Company, Limited; New York: H. W. Gray Co., Sole Agents for the U.S.A., 1899. — 419 p. Johann Sebastian Bach, his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685–1750. By Philipp Spitta. Translated from the German by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland.
First Vintage Book Edition, 1999. — 589 p.: ill. Homeland Kreisleriana Two Journeys The Eagle's Wings Waiting Words Spoken and Uspoken Photo Inserts Resolution a Minor Key Premiere and Postlude Rebirth A Garden Full of Nightingales City of Dreams Farewell They That Mourn Ruthless Beauty Herr Musikdirector The Tramp of Giants Photo Insert Late Idyll Song of the Fates...
London: J.M. Dent, 1978, 1993. — 251 p.:ill: musical examples. — (Master Musicians). Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each...
University Of Chicago Press, 2016. — 432 p. The Works of Giuseppe Verdi is the first critical edition of the composer’s oeuvre. Together with his operas, the series presents his songs, his choral music and sacred pieces, and his string quartet and other instrumental works. This edition of Messa da Requiem is based on Verdi’s autograph score and other original sources. The...
2006, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, ISBN: 0375407529, 689 p. Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volume Stravinsky is the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe growing ever more chaotic in the lead-up...
Dover Publications, 2014. — 147 p.: ill. — Reprint of Greystone Press, Inc., New York, 1941 edition. Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered...
Translated by A. L. Alger. — Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company. — 275 p. Robert Schumann's Childhood, Youth, and Student Life: Zwickau, Leipsic, Heidelberg Robert Schumann's Artistic Career: Leipsic, 1830 - 1840 Robert Schumann's Musicak Career: Leipsic, Dresden, Dusseldorf, 1840 - 1854 Letters for 1833 - 1852 Communication on Schumann's Illness and death Biographical Notice of...
New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. — 546 p. A giant in the pantheon of 19th century composers, Tchaikovsky continues to enthrall audiences today. From the Nutcracker--arguably the most popular ballet currently on the boards--Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty, to Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame, to the Symphony Pathetique and the always rousing, canon-blasting 1812...
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