Author: Chess PlayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Chess Player
Le Joueur d'échecs
Author: 777 "chess Miniatures in Three"
Author: Edgar Wallis
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738197671
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Juste Un Tas D'Idées Folles
Author: Pardu S. PonnapalliPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147715373X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Ce livre est au sujet des pensées et des idées sur un large éventail de sujets. Les idées vont de la modification du jeu d'échecs pour créer une version très intéressante de la façon de poursuivre l'exploration spatiale d'une manière qui capte l'imagination du public. Les opinions sur les moyens nouveaux et novateurs pour construire un ascenseur spatial de conception d'une méthode pour le traitement de Littré chat et quelques moyens simples pour économiser l'énergie sont présentés. Les questions économiques relatives à la dette fédérale et le déficit sont discutés.
J. L. E. Meissonier, H. R. A. His Life and Work
Author: Lionel RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Life and Work of L. Alma Tadema
Author: Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Crescendo of the Virtuoso
Author: Paul MetznerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520414276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
Georges Auric
Author: Colin RoustPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190607777
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Moulin Rouge - the names popularly associated with film composer Georges Auric's career conjure visions of a distant and glamorous early twentieth-century Parisian art world. Auric wrote well over 100 film scores, including the soundtrack for Roman Holiday, and was notably affiliated with Les Six, a group of French composers reacting to the musical establishment of the 1920s. But Auric's life and work spanned far beyond this limited sphere. A lifelong involvement in politics - from his leftism during the Popular Front years of the 1930s to his significant role in the French Communist Party's musical resistance of the 1940s - heavily influenced his sound and aesthetic. His advocacy on behalf of his fellow musicians led him into the fight for fair copyright laws, initially in France and then worldwide. And over the course of a seven-decade-long career, Auric took on roles as diverse as music critic, opera director, and arts administrator, revealing a deep involvement in his country's musical life that makes the label of "composer" seem inadequate. The first English-language biography of Auric, Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics rethinks the conventional ideas of what it means to be a composer. Drawing from an astonishing three dozen untapped archives, including the private archives of Auric's widow, author Colin Roust presents a picture of Auric that is as multifaceted as the man's career. Using Auric's life as a lens, Roust reveals the transforming role of music - and the composer - in twentieth-century society.