The lives of the great composers /
| Основен автор: | Schonberg, Harold C. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
W.W. Norton,
c1970
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| Издание: | [1st ed.] |
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Съдържание:
- Transfiguration of the Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach
- Composer and impresario, George Frideric Handel
- Reformer of opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Classicism par excellence, Franz Joseph Haydn
- Prodigy from Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Revolutionary from Bonn, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Poet of music, Franz Peter Schubert
- Freedom and a new language, Weber and the early romantics
- Romantic exuberance and classic restraint, Hector Berlioz
- Florestan and Eusebius, Robert Schumann
- Apotheosis of the piano, Frederic Chopin
- Virtuoso, charlatan and prophet, Franz Liszt
- Bourgeois genius, Felix Mendelssohn
- Voice, voice, and more voice, Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini
- Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle, Meyerbeer, Cherunini, Auber
- Colossus of Italy, Giuseppe Verdi
- Colossus of Germany, Richard Wagner
- Keeper of the flame, Johannes Brahms
- Master of the Lied, Hugo Wolf
- Waltz, Polka, and satire, Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan
- Faust and French opera, from Gounod to Saint-Saens
- Russian nationalism and the mighty five, from Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov
- Surcharged emotionalism, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- From Bohemia to Spain, European nationalists
- Chromaticism and sensibilite, from Franck to Faure
- Only for the theater, Giacomo Puccini
- Romanticism's long coda, Richard Strauss
- Religion, mysticism, and retrospection, Bruckner, Mahler, Reger
- Symbolism and impressionism, Claude-Achille Debussy
- Gallic elegance and the new breed, Maurice Ravel and les six
- The chameleon, Igor Stravinsky
- The English renaissance, Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams
- Mysticism and melancholy, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff
- Under the Soviets, Prokofiev and Shostakovich
- German neoclassicism, Busoni, Weill, Hindemith
- Rise of an American tradition, from Gottschalk to Copland
- The uncompromising Hungarian, Bela Bartok
- The second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern.