Author : Wilhelm Ganz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0722254105
Memories of a Musician
Wilhelm Ganz
Memories Of A Musician Reminiscences Of Seventy Years Of Musical Life
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Memories of a Musician; Reminiscences of Seventy Years of Musical Life
Wilhelm Ganz
Author : Wilhelm Ganz
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290231508
Memories of a Musician; Reminiscences of Seventy Years of Musical Life by Wilhelm Ganz Pdf
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MEMORIES OF A MUSICIAN REMINIS
Wilhelm 1833-1914 Ganz
Author : Wilhelm 1833-1914 Ganz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 136395539X
MEMORIES OF A MUSICIAN REMINIS by Wilhelm 1833-1914 Ganz Pdf
Memories of a Musician
Wilhelm Ganz
Author : Wilhelm Ganz
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0267764898
Memories of a Musician by Wilhelm Ganz Pdf
Excerpt from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy Years of Musical Life Opera in English at Drury Lane - Jullien and Berlioz - Madame Dulcken's receptions - Alred Bunn - Cremorne and Royal Surrey Gardens - The great Monte Cristo Row - Balfe and the Pyne and Harrison English opera season at Covent Garden - Balfe's extravagance - How he composed - His popular songs - Alfred Gilbert - Story of the German Reeds in their famous entertainments - Jenny Lind's Concert Tour pp. 51-76. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914
Pippa Drummond
Author : Pippa Drummond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317018766
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 by Pippa Drummond Pdf
A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
The Pursuit of High Culture
Christina Bashford
Author : Christina Bashford
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843832984
The Pursuit of High Culture by Christina Bashford Pdf
This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union. This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union [1845-81], an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much fêted across Europe in its day. It combines a biography of Ella with a social-economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, and sets them against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural life. Ella's extraordinary life story, which began in provincial, artisan-class obscurity and ended in the upper echelons of London society, shapes thenarrative. Such themes as entrepreneurship, concert management, taste shaping, music appreciation and elite social networks are discussed throughout, as is the curious interplay between the desire to 'sacralize' chamber music, especially Beethoven's, on the one hand, and the need to survive amid the increasing commercial imperatives of London concert life on the other. CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Anton Rubinstein
Philip S. Taylor
Author : Philip S. Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253116758
Anton Rubinstein by Philip S. Taylor Pdf
The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western European musical culture during the late 19th century, exploring his rise to international fame from humble origins in Bessarabia, as well as his subsequent rapid decline and marginalization in later musical culture. Taylor provides a balanced account of Rubinstein's life and his career as a piano virtuoso, conductor, composer, and as the founder of Russia's first conservatory. Widely considered the virtuosic heir to Liszt, and recognized internationally as an equivalent cultural icon, he performed with most leading musicians of the day, including Liszt himself, Joachim, Clara Schumann, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Saint-Saens, and Ysaÿe.
Music and British Culture, 1785-1914
Christina Bashford,Leanne Langley
Author : Christina Bashford,Leanne Langley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 019816730X
Music and British Culture, 1785-1914 by Christina Bashford,Leanne Langley Pdf
This collection of sixteen new essays, all commissioned from cultural and musical historians, was inspired by the themes and approaches of Professor Cyril Ehrlich's pathbreaking work on British social history in music. This volume discusses issues such as the music marketplace, piano culture, musicians' work patterns, music institutions, concert history, and national and urban identities - all with a clear focus on art music traditions. The cultural importance of serious music, from Belfast to Calcutta, has long been assumed for the period but rarely demonstrated. Here the issue is interwoven with the social and economic realities confronting music and musicians in Britain across the 19th century.
Camille Saint-Saëns and His World
Jann Pasler
Author : Jann Pasler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400845101
Camille Saint-Saëns and His World by Jann Pasler Pdf
A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-Saëns Camille Saint-Saëns—perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music—is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance. In a wide-ranging and trenchant series of essays, articles, and documents, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man and his music. Topics range from intimate glimpses of the private and playful Saint-Saëns, to the composer's interest in astronomy and republican politics, his performances of Mozart and Rameau over eight decades, and his extensive travels around the world. This collection also analyzes the role he played in various musical societies and his complicated relationship with such composers as Liszt, Massenet, Wagner, and Ravel. Featuring the best contemporary scholarship on this crucial, formative period in French music, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World restores the composer to his vital role as innovator and curator of Western music. The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Jean-Christophe Branger, Michel Duchesneau, Katharine Ellis, Annegret Fauser, Yves Gérard, Dana Gooley, Carolyn Guzski, Carol Hess, D. Kern Holoman, Léo Houziaux, Florence Launay, Stéphane Leteuré, Martin Marks, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, William Peterson, Michael Puri, Sabina Teller Ratner, Laure Schnapper, Marie-Gabrielle Soret, Michael Stegemann, and Michael Strasser.
Hans Von Bülow
Alan Walker
Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195368680
Hans Von Bülow by Alan Walker Pdf
Hans von Bulow's career unfolded in at least six directions simultaneously. He was a renowned concert pianist; the first virtuoso orchestral conductor; a respected (and sometimes feared) teacher; an influential editor of works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and above all of Beethoven, in the performance of whose music he had no rival; a scourge as a music critic; and lastly, he was himself also a composer of music. In Hans von Bulow: A Life and Times, Alan Walker, the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning books on the era's iconic composers, provides the first full-length English biography of this remarkable musical figure.
Conductors in Britain, 1870-1914
Fiona M. Palmer
Author : Fiona M. Palmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271450
Conductors in Britain, 1870-1914 by Fiona M. Palmer Pdf
Shows how the work of orchestral conductors was shaped by and enriched cultural life in Britain from the late Victorian era to World War I.
Wagnerism
Alex Ross
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429944540
Wagnerism by Alex Ross Pdf
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.
London
Lewis Foreman,Susan Foreman
Author : Lewis Foreman,Susan Foreman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300104022
London by Lewis Foreman,Susan Foreman Pdf
The essential companion to musical London
Great Wagner Conductors
Jonathan Brown
Author : Jonathan Brown
Publisher : Parrot Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780987155658
Great Wagner Conductors by Jonathan Brown Pdf
This is the Ebook version of the award-winning "Great Wagner Conductors" published in 2012, now scarce in print. It contains corrections to the hardback edition, and remedies some omissions to the discographies. It also contains all 723 illustrations in the book, brilliantly illuminated, many showing the conductors at work. Some of these are rare, some are in colour. (These are not displayed in the free sample.) "Great Wagner Conductors" is the first in-depth study to bring the great historical Wagner conductors to life - through anecdote, their own views on Wagner’s music, reports of their performances throughout the world, and their recordings. There is a substantial introductory chapter on Wagner - what he was like as a conductor of his own works and what he wanted of his conductors – then follow chapters on Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Hermann Levi, Felix Mottl, Karl Muck, Artur Nikisch, Albert Coates, Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner, Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Artur Bodanzky, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Fritz Busch, Erich Kleiber, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss, Karl Böhm, Richard Strauss, Otto Klemperer, and Fritz Reiner. Thousands of reviews of performances from many countries have been distilled to bring us as close as we can to knowing what the conductors were really like. There are comprehensive discographies setting out what the conductors recorded. Rare recordings are documented. There is comment on or excerpts from reviews of all the major recordings, and on many of the more obscure. A section on timings of actual and recorded performances, from Wagner onwards, reveals how widely practice has varied. There is a Select Bibliography, and an Index. "The level of detail achieved is quite breathtaking," wrote David Patmore in "Classical Recordings Quarterly" reviewing the hardback, "It extends to a vast arsenal of footnotes … as a resource they will be amazingly useful in a vast range of different contexts…. For anyone interested in conducting from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and in particular the performance of Wagner, this book will be an essential acquisition. Its strength lies in the collection of so many different and varied contemporary reports of Wagner in performance from approximately 1850 to 1960. If this is where your interest lies, it will provide much fascinating reading." (Winter 2012). "Great Wagner Conductors is a major contribution to the literature on this subject," wrote Gary Galo in the "ARSC Journal", "and belongs in the library of every serious Wagner enthusiast." (May 2013). The book was awarded an Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in 2013.
Memories of a Musician
Wilhelm Ganz
Author : Wilhelm Ganz
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Musicians
ISBN : IOWA:31858047290352
