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Mozart and His World
Häftad, 2026
315 kr
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A collection of essays that reinvigorates our understanding of some of Mozart's best-loved works.One of the world’s most revered composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) wrote works in almost every genre. His life and work continue to fascinate scholars, performers, and music lovers alike. …
Sergey Prokofiev and His World
Häftad, 2008
461 kr
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Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in the West, and rise and fall as a Stalinist-era composer is filled with unresolved questions. Sergey …
Beethoven and His World
Av Scott Burnham, Michael P. Steinberg
Häftad, 2000
447 kr
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Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven and His World gathers eminent scholars from several disciplines who collectively speak to the range …
Nadia Boulanger and Her World
Inbunden, 2020
1048 kr
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Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers-- especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass--studying with Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a …
Nadia Boulanger and Her World
Häftad, 2020
397 kr
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Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers-- especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass--studying with Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a …
Rachmaninoff and His World
Inbunden, 2022
1105 kr
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A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a …
Rachmaninoff and His World
Häftad, 2022
358 kr
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A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a …
Vaughan Williams and His World
Av Byron Adams, Daniel M. Grimley
Inbunden, 2023
1105 kr
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A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. …
Vaughan Williams and His World
Av Byron Adams, Daniel M. Grimley
Häftad, 2023
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315 kr
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A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. …
Berlioz and His World
Av Francesca Brittan, Sarah Hibberd m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
315 kr
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A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner’s estimation, he hovered as a “transient, marvelous …
Berlioz and His World
Av Francesca Brittan, Sarah Hibberd
Inbunden, 2024
1017 kr
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A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner’s estimation, he hovered as a “transient, marvelous …
Martinu and His World
Av Ales Brezina, Michael Beckerman
Inbunden, 2025
1017 kr
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A collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Bohuslav Martinů was one of the most extraordinary and prolific composers of the twentieth century. Martinů and His World offers a portrait of the composer in all …
Martinu and His World
Av Ales Brezina, Michael Beckerman
Häftad, 2025
315 kr
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A collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Bohuslav Martinů was one of the most extraordinary and prolific composers of the twentieth century. Martinů and His World offers a portrait of the composer in all …
Mozart and His World
Inbunden, 2026
1017 kr
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A collection of essays that reinvigorates our understanding of some of Mozart's best-loved works.One of the world’s most revered composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) wrote works in almost every genre. His life and work continue to fascinate scholars, performers, and music lovers alike. …
Dvorák and His World
Häftad, 1993
865 kr
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Antonin Dvorak made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorak's …
Bartók and His World
Av Peter Laki
Häftad, 1995
953 kr
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Bela Bartok, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a rapidly growing critical and analytical literature. Bartok was born in Hungary and made his home there for all but his last five years, …
Charles Ives and His World
Häftad, 1996
517 kr
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This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical …
Mendelssohn and His World
Häftad, 1991
1358 kr
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During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his …
Richard Strauss and His World
Häftad, 1992
1358 kr
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Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical …
Schoenberg and His World
Häftad, 1999
533 kr
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers. Schoenberg and His World explores the richness of his genius through commentary and documents. Marilyn McCoy opens the volume with a concise …
Haydn and His World
Häftad, 1997
533 kr
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Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language …
Debussy and His World
Av Jane Fulcher
Häftad, 2001
517 kr
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Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I--that Debussy re-thought music. This book captures the complexity of the composer's …
Mahler and His World
Häftad, 2002
428 kr
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From the composer's lifetime to the present day, Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. Poised between the Romantic tradition he radically renewed and the austere modernism whose exponents he inspired, Mahler was a consummate public persona and yet an …
Janácek and His World
Häftad, 2003
982 kr
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Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age of 62, and unable to make it even …
Shostakovich and His World
Häftad, 2004
908 kr
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional …
Aaron Copland and His World
Häftad, 2005
533 kr
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Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This collection of seventeen essays by distinguished scholars of American music explores the stages of …
Franz Liszt and His World
Av Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley
Häftad, 2006
447 kr
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No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbe, he reinvented the concert …
Edward Elgar and His World
Av Byron Adams
Häftad, 2007
393 kr
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy …
Brahms and His World
Revised Edition
Av Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes
Häftad, 2009
393 kr
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Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close …
Richard Wagner and His World
Häftad, 2009
393 kr
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues …
