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Tonsättaren Adolf Fredrik Lindblad vistades 1825 till 1827 i Berlin där han blev vän med Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. De brevväxlade fram till Mendelssohns död 1847. I breven diskuterar de musik, musiklivet och sina levnadsöden. Eva Öhrström är mu...

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Richard Wagners drama Nibelungens Ring i ny, lättillgänglig översättning. Boken omfattar den fullständiga texten till de fyra ingående operorna Rhenguldet, Valkyrian, Siegfried och Ragnarök. Jämsides med den tyska texten löper den svenska översätt...

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Burgmüllers Etüden zählen bis heute zu den gängigsten und beliebtesten Studienwerken im Klavierunterricht und bilden den Höhepunkt im kompositorischen Schaffen des Pädagogen. Op. 100 ist die grundlegende seiner drei Etüdensammlungen, die nach tech...

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Dotzauer - 113 Violoncello-Etüden - Heft 1: Nr. 1 -34

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Richard Wagners Gesamtkunstwerk "Tristan und Isolde" thematisiert die unentrinnbare Macht der Liebe: Das Stück ist - dramatisch und musikalisch - ganz auf das Empfinden der beiden Protagonisten konzentriert. Egon Voss, Editionsleiter der...

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A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much o...

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A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle 'Smiling in sorrow I sing of love' The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic conflict, the search for glory, s...

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Lang Lang Piano Academy: mastering the piano level 4 enthalt u.a. Kapitel zum Pedal-Legato, Phrasierung und Rubato, neuen Begleitfiguren und zum musikalischen Kontext. Lektionen: Haltung, Bewegung, Griff Pedal-Legato Neue Begleitfiguren Weitere Ak...

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Lang Lang Piano Academy: mastering the piano level 5 (mittelschwer bis schwer) befasst sich u.a. mit der Verbesserung des Anschlag, intuitivem Pedalspiel, Verzierungen und Spielen vor Publikum. Lektionen: Gelaufigkeits-Training Intuitives Pedalspi...

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With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel, a mixture of songs and dialogue, in which the spectacular effects and comedy fit naturally: they appeal today as much as they did when ...

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Fidelio is Beethoven's only opera, and the composition he is said to have loved the most. Elizabeth Forbes introduces the background and composition of the opera, written and revised over the years when Europe was caught up in the Napoleonic ...

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'A Landmark in Musical History' is John Luke Rose's title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing, and a short note on the poem itself by Martin Swales and ...

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Der Rosenkavalier has one of the longest and most exquisitely crafted texts of all opera. The depth and subtlety of the characterization can only be appreciated after a careful reading. Derrick Puffett notes that the sentimentality and parody of t...

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This opera has been described as "the longest single smile in the German language". But Roland Matthews indicates that violence is not far beneath the surface of this portrait of medieval Nuremberg. Arnold Whittall's analysis gives ...

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Things like this are written only for people who have good powers of endurance (so really for nobody!), wrote Wagner about Die Walkre. Yet, as Geoffrey Skelton points out, the opera has enjoyed a separate popularity and existence from the Ring Cyc...

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It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond our power to describe. Thus reads one of the first London reviews of Cos fan tutte. Its enigmatic mixt...

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Wagner wanted Siegfried, the third music drama in The Ring of the Nibelung, to be the most popular of the cycle. Despite its many beautiful and dramatic scenes, it has not fulfilled its composers aspiration: Professor Ulrich Weisstein examines why...

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Written in 1927, Arabella is a portrait partly romanticized, partly factual of Habsburg Vienna in the 1860s. It is also a celebration of the profound importance of courage and the ability to forgive in love. Our sympathies are not only drawn to Ar...

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Richard Wagners fifteen-hour operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung ends with this great music drama. Michael Tanners essay tackles the scale and meaning not just of this work but of Wagners whole undertaking, showing that Gtterdmmerung is for al...

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These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. More than any other work in the operatic repertory, Parsifal demands a ...

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Das Rheingold, the opening of Wagner's four-part Ring of Nibelung, stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately establishes the huge scale of the overall work, and the extraordinary musical language that will...

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Richard Strauss turned his genius to opera at the turn of the twentieth century, and this guide contains the texts and introductions to his first two masterpieces in what was, for him, a new genre. Despite obvious similarities both operas consisti...

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What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhauser, an opera which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? The subject is the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment, betwe...

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In 1972 Elias Canetti said that 'with Wozzeck Buchner achieved the most complete revolution in the whole of literature'. The same can be said of Berg's opera, as revolutionary in the history of music - and opera in particular - in t...

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The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of the foundation myths of Christian Europe. Lohengrin's transformed Wagner into an international figure almost overnight, and it remained his most popu...

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Die Violinschule "Schritt für Schritt" besteht aus Übungsbüchern mit CDs und basiert auf Dr. Suzukis "Muttersprachenmethode". Sie ist allen jungen Geigenschülern, deren Eltern und Lehrern gewidmet. Von Anfan...

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Die Violinschule "Schritt für Schritt" besteht aus Übungsbüchern mit CDs und basiert auf Dr. Suzukis "Muttersprachenmethode". Sie ist allen jungen Geigenschülern, deren Eltern und Lehrern gewidmet. Von Anfan...

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