Author: Gustav Carl HelstedPublisher:
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Languages : en
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String quintet in E flat major, opus 21
Author: Gustav Carl HelstedQuintet E Flat Major Op. 21, No. 6
Author: Luigi BoccheriniPublisher:
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Category : Quintets (Flute, violins (2), viola, cello)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Schubert's Beethoven Project
Author: John M. GingerichPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139952080
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Why couldn't Schubert get his 'great' C-Major Symphony performed? Why was he the first composer to consistently write four movements for his piano sonatas? Since neither Schubert's nor Beethoven's piano sonatas were ever performed in public, who did hear them? Addressing these questions and many others, John M. Gingerich provides a new understanding of Schubert's career and his relationship to Beethoven. Placing the genres of string quartet, symphony, and piano sonata within the cultural context of the 1820s, the book examines how Schubert was building on Beethoven's legacy. Gingerich brings new understandings of how Schubert tried to shape his career to bear on new hermeneutic readings of the works from 1824 to 1828 that share musical and extra-musical pre-occupations, centering on the 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet and the Cello Quintet, as well as on analyses of the A-minor Quartet, the Octet, and of the 'great' C-Major Symphony.
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume IV
Author: A. Peter BrownPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334886
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
This volume contains the symphonies of Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák and Mahler, covering the period from roughly 1860 to 1930. Other contemporaries are discussed including Goldmark, Zemlinsky and Berg.
Dvořák
Author: Kurt HonolkaPublisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 9781904341529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Accessible and affordable illustrated biography
Sviatoslav Richter
Author: Bruno MonsaingeonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691095493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
"Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover
The New Beethoven
Author: Jeremy YudkinPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469930
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works.
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume IV
Author: A. Peter BrownPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334886
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
This volume contains the symphonies of Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák and Mahler, covering the period from roughly 1860 to 1930. Other contemporaries are discussed including Goldmark, Zemlinsky and Berg.
The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
Author: Robin StowellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000420
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Author: Lewis LockwoodPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393326381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.