Description: Further DetailsTitle: Beethoven's CenturyCondition: NewSubtitle: Essays on Composers and ThemesISBN-10: 1580462758EAN: 9781580462754ISBN: 9781580462754Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/01/2008Description: Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janácek.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, andhow 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 friendshipbetween 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 libretti 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 Janácek, are brought to life. Beethoven's Century concludes with a wrylook 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Hugh MacdonaldGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Eastman Studies in MusicItem Weight: 1gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Beethoven's Century
Title: Beethoven's Century
Subtitle: Essays on Composers and Themes
ISBN-10: 1580462758
EAN: 9781580462754
ISBN: 9781580462754
Release Date: 06/01/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Beethoven's Century : Essays on Composers and Themes
Language: English
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician, Essays
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Hugh Macdonald
Subject Area: Music, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Eastman Studies in Music Ser.
Format: Hardcover