Author: Franz LisztPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : fr
Pages : 4
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Autograph letter from Franz Liszt, Nantes, France to unidentified correspondent
Author: Franz LisztAutograph letter from Henri Rabaud, Arles, France to unidentified correspondent
Author: Henri RabaudPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : fr
Pages : 1
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Autograph Letter from an Unidentified Correspondent, Albany, New York, to William Winter
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Praises Winter's poem The sceptre and suggests a variant word choice in one line of the poem. Letter is signed "No critic." Annotation on verso of second leaf by Winter on the contents of the letter.
Autograph letter from Camille Saint-Saëns, London, England to unidentified correspondent
Author: Camille Saint-SaënsPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : fr
Pages : 4
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Autograph letter from an unidentified correspondent to unidentified recipient
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Category : Manuscripts, Danish
Languages : da
Pages :
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Discusses Foersom's Shakespeare translations and a possible new edition of the work. Unsigned.
Autograph letter unsigned from an unidentified correspondent to an unidentified recipient
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Category : Manuscripts, Danish
Languages : en
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Discusses Lembcke's work on revising Foersom's translation.
Crescendo of the Virtuoso
Author: Paul MetznerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520377400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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.
The New Grove Wagner
Author: John DeathridgePublisher: W. W. Norton
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Grove Art: The New Grove Art series, focusing on the most important periods and areas of art history, is derived from the critically acclaimed "The Dictionary of Art. Each book contains hundreds of articles by world authorities, written in clear, jargon-free language and provides an unprecedented guide to Western art. Grove Music: The scholarship of the world-renowned "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is now available in four convenientlysized paperbacks. These biographies offerallyou need to know about some of the most innovative and prolific composers ever known.
Friedrich List (1789-1846)
Author: Eugen WendlerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642545548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Friedrich List (1789-1846) was a prophet of social market economy, national economy and the infant-industry theory. In this comprehensive biography the international influence and reception of List’s theories is presented together with his extraordinary vita. List was a notable early advocate of economic integration of the many separate states of 19th century Germany. His basic theory is that of productive resources and the need to protect infant industries until they have matured enough to stand alone. He is recognized as a visionary economist with social responsibility and as an influential railway pioneer. He was a liberal and a democrat who promoted an extended representative democracy, including respect for human rights and civil liberties, to accompany industrial development. His highly influential main work “The National System of Political Economy” has been translated into many languages. Eugen Wendler, the renowned author and List expert, not only builds upon his many years of research, but also discusses several new sources. This richly illustrated book is as informative as it is well written.
Fire in the Minds of Men
Author: James H. BillingtonPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0765804719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.