Beethoven's Century

Essays on Composers and Themes

Autor: Hugh Macdonald

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Editura: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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In "Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes", world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald...

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Autor

Hugh Macdonald

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

272

EAN

9781580462754

ISBN

1580462758

Enbook ID

04822705

Editura

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Greutate

618

Dimensiuni

165 x 239 x 22

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In "Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes", world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. "Beethoven's Century" addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, and how today's audiences can usefully approach it.Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendship between Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera librettos in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janacek, are brought to life." Beethoven's Century" concludes with a wry look at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.

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