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21 produkter
Debussy
A Painter in Sound
Häftad, 2019
222 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY AWARD FOR STORYTELLINGClaude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of …
Musorgsky and His Circle
A Russian Musical Adventure
E-bok, 2013
245 kr
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The emergence of Russian classical music in the nineteenth century in the wake of Mikhail Glinka comprises one of the most remarkable and fascinating stories in all musical history. The five men who came together in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg in the 1860s, all composers of talent, some …
Stravinsky
A Creative Spring, Russia and France 1882-1934
Häftad, 2003
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
271 kr
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Widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art, yet no dependable biography of him exists. Previous studies have drawn too heavily from his own unreliable memoirs and conversations, and until now no biographer …
Stravinsky
Häftad, 2008
556 kr
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Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volume "Stravinsky" is the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe growing ever more …
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Inbunden, 1993
989 kr
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Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original music-theatre works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide is the first ever to be written on this work and it describes the music and its staging in close detail. It offers the first proper …
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Av Stephen Walsh, Julian Rushton
Häftad, 1993
266 kr
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Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original music-theatre works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide is the first ever to be written on this work and it describes the music and its staging in close detail. It offers the first proper …
Musorgsky and His Circle
A Russian Musical Adventure
Inbunden, 2013
334 kr
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The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history. …
Musorgsky and His Circle
A Russian Musical Adventure
E-bok, 2013
250 kr
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The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history. …
Debussy
A Painter in Sound
E-bok, 2018
191 kr
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Debussy's life is of extraordinary interest because, like Wagner and Stravinsky, he crossed artistic boundaries, associating as much with poets and artists as with musicians. His father was active in the 1871 Paris Commune and the composer's childhood was thus unsettled, his musical preparation …
Beloved Vision
Music in the Romantic Age
Inbunden, 2022
280 kr
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Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - points out in this intensely absorbing study, …
Beloved Vision
Music in the Romantic Age
E-bok, 2022
191 kr
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Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - points out in this intensely absorbing study, …
Schumann in Love and Music
Inbunden, 2027
280 kr
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Before Robert Schumann met the concert pianist and composer Clara Wieck and settled into their marriage, he was a quintessentially Romantic anguished young man. In Schumann in Love and Music, Stephen Walsh explores the wilder years of the composer's teens and twenties, animating the remarkable …
Stravinsky (Volume 2)
The Second Exile: France and America, 1934 - 1971
Häftad, 2007
344 kr
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In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. Stravinsky: The Second Exile follows him through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. These are …
Stravinsky (Volume 2)
The Second Exile: France and America, 1934 - 1971
E-bok, 2011
227 kr
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In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. Stravinsky: The Second Exile follows him through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. These are …
Shine/Variance
E-bok, 2021
170 kr
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"Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times"An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice" Donal Ryan"These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful stories. I loved this collection" …
Debussy
A Painter in Sound
E-bok, 2018
229 kr
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A beautifully written and original biography of one of the greatest and most popular modern composers--which also deeply investigates his much-loved music. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music …
Voices Of The Old Firm
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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This revised and updated edition of Voices of the Old Firm tells the story of Rangers and Celtic in the words of those who can say 'I was there'. By interviewing players, managers but above all supporters of the two great clubs, Stephen Walsh has built up a unique portrait of sixty years of …
Stravinsky (Volume 1)
A Creative Spring: Russia and France 1882 – 1934
Häftad, 2014
232 kr
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In addition to being a great composer, Igor Stravinsky was one of the most fascinating personalities of his time. His life spanned an amazing range of events and places - pre-revolutionary Russia, Europe in the years between the wars, and the United States between 1941 and his death in 1971. Such …
Hancock: The Lad Himself
The Lad Himself
Av Stephen Walsh, John Freeman
Inbunden, 2023
515 kr
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The story of the legendary comedian Tony Hancock in words, pictures, and not without a few interruptions from The Lad Himself, who proves a little infuriated at how his story is told... as those who know and love his work would fully expect!When he appeared on radio and television in the 1950s, …
