Constantin Floros - Böcker

While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner ...

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With the terms visionary and despot, the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahlers inner biography: his unshakable belie...

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Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.

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This work offers a detailed exploration of each of Mahler's ten symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde, bringing to light various aspects of the works. It examines their history and autobiographical origins and discusses events that profoundly affec...

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The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "establishment" and "outsiders" in science and scholarship. It portrays a number of prominent composers, conductors and musicologists and seeks to illuminate the natu...

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The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "e;establishment"e; and "e;outsiders"e; in science and scholarship. It portrays a number of prominent composers, conductors and musicologists and seeks to illuminate the ...

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The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "e;establishment"e; and "e;outsiders"e; in science and scholarship. It portrays a number of prominent composers, conductors and musicologists and seeks to illuminate the ...

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Mozarts ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes bo...

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Mozart's ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes b...

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Mozart's ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes b...

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Insbesondere das symphonische Werk Gustav Mahlers gehört bis heute zum festen Repertoire der großen Konzerthäuser. Mit Constantin Floros bietet ein international renommierter Mahler-Experte einen biographischen Überblick über Mahlers eindrucksvoll...

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Peter Tschaikowsky ist bis heute einer der meistgespielten russischen Komponisten. Constantin Floros beschreibt auf der Grundlage neuester Forschungen und Quellenpublikationen die enge Verquickung von Biographie und Werk Tschaikowskys. Und er zeig...

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Dieser Band versammelt vierundzwanzig Beitrage von Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Generationen zu einer Ruckschau auf die Musikgeschichte des eben zu Ende gegangenen Jahrhunderts. Er ist Peter Petersen, dem langjahrigen Redakteur und Mitherausgebe...

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Five kondakarian manuscripts dating from the 11th to 13th century belong among the oldest witnesses of Russian church music. The Slavonic church texts are accompanied by a peculiar notation which represents the most complex notational system of th...

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Johannes Brahms was until now widely regarded as the archetype of the absolute musician. Based on new research, the study shows how close autobiographic and poetic elements are in fact linked to his uvre. Like Robert Schumann, Brahms subscribed to...

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Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume Unive...

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The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not ...

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With this study the author opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for more than a century. It makes clear what exactly Beethoven and his c...

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Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words: a musical art work is not merely an autonomous artifact but also document humain. With this thesis a...

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20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the centurys intellectual currents and social and political changes, and th...

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The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music ...

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This monograph is an authoritative study of the uvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligetis key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set ...

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Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and pol...

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In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the dimension of their distance, as argued later? Both wrote a...

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With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahlers symphonies really be categorized as absolute music? Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the ...

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With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler's symphonies really be categorized as "e;absolute music"e;? - Little-known manuscript sources contain signific...

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To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and...

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To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role - at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters a...

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To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role - at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters a...

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