Author: Viktor FischlPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Antonin Dvorak, His Achievement
Author: Viktor FischlPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Antonin Dvorák
Author: Viktor FischlAntonin Dvorak: his achievement. By Gerald Abraham, Mosco Carner [and others] ... Edited by V. Fischl. [With a portrait.]
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Author: Viktor FischlAntonin Dvorak, His Achievement
Author: Viktor FischlPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781294638
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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Antonin Dvorak. His Achievement, by Gerald Abraham, Mosco Carner, H. C. Colles, Harriet Cohen, Astra Desmond, Thomas Dunhill, Edwin Evans, Ernest Walker, Julius Harrison, Frank Howes
Author: Antonín DvořákDvorák and His World
Author: Michael BeckermanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831695
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorák's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal. The essays, which make up the first part of the book, begin with Leon Botstein's inquiry into the reception of Dvorák's work in German-speaking Europe, in England, and in America. Commenting on the relationship between Dvorák and Brahms, David Beveridge offers the first detailed portrait of perhaps the most interesting artistic friendship of the era. Joseph Horowitz explores the context in which the "New World" Symphony was premiered a century ago, offering an absorbing account of New York musical life at that time. In discussing Dvorák as a composer of operas, Jan Smaczny provides an unexpected slant on the widely held view of him as a "nationalist" composer. Michael Beckerman further investigates this view of Dvorák by raising the question of the role nationalism played in music of the nineteenth century. The second part of this volume presents Dvorák's correspondence and reminiscences as well as unpublished reviews and criticism from the Czech press. It includes a series of documents from the composer's American years, a translation of the review of Rusalka's premiere with the photographs that accompanied the article, and Janácek's analyses of the symphonic poems. Many of these documents are published in English for the first time.
Dvořák, His Life and Times
Author: Neil ButterworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Author: Joseph HorowitzPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393881253
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”
Antonin Dvorak
Author: Avigdor DaganRethinking Dvořák
Author: David R. BeveridgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198164111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The 24 essays offer penetrating insights into Dvorak's personality, his place in history, and the sheer beauty of his music. How this music was received and appreciated is a subject of special focus, offering explanations as to why, despite the composer's popularity, some of his greatest compositions have remained unknown.