Anton Bruckner : the man and the work /
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 the man, however, is still extreme instance of the t...
| Основен автор: | Floros, Constantin. |
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| Други автори: | Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest, 1934- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English German |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Peter Lang,
2011.
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Съдържание:
- Part one : A character portrait
- Who was Bruckner?
- Authoritarianism and self-assurance
- Neurosis
- Libido
- Emotionality
- The "passionate urge to compose"
- Securing an income
- Persecution mania
- Worries about the success of the work
- Interest in the exceptional
- "Sympathy with death"
- Religiosity
- Part two : Sacred music
- Personality and oeuvre
- Music as religious confession
- A new, dramatic conception of the mass
- The credo settings
- Religious tone symbolism
- Jubilant and devotional music
- "Let me not be confounded in eternity" : the Te Deum
- Music as song of praise
- Part three : The symphonies
- The fiction of "absolute music"
- Originality and modernity
- Matters of style
- How Bruckner came to the symphony
- Autiographic elements in the Second and Third Symphonies
- The allegiance to Richard Wagner
- The triad of the middle symphonies
- The Seventh : a second "Wagner symphony"
- Secular and religious
- Imaginations : Bruckner's associations in the Eighth
- The Ninth : Bruckner's "farewell to life"
- Reflections on the Bruckner interpretation : Gunter Wand, Eugen Jochum and Sergiu Celibidache
- The progressive.