Richard Strauss

Author : Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691027625

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Richard Strauss and His World by Bryan Randolph Gilliam Pdf

Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time. In the essays Leon Botstein contradicts the notion of the composer's stylistic "about face" after Elektra; Derrick Puffett reinforces the argument for Strauss's artistic consistency by tracing in the tone poems and operas the phenomenon of pitch specificity; James Hepokoski establishes Strauss as an early modernist in an examination of Macbeth; Michael Steinberg probes the composer's political sensibility as expressed in the 1930s through his music and use of such texts as Friedenstag and Daphne; Bryan Gilliam discusses the genesis of both the text and the music in the final scene of Daphne; Timothy Jackson in his thorough source study argues for a new addition to the so-called Four Last Songs. Among the correspondence are previously untranslated letters between Strauss and his post-Hofmannsthal librettist, Joseph Gregor. The memoirs range from early biographical sketches to Rudolf Hartmann's moving account of his last visit with Strauss shortly before the composer's death. Critical reviews include recently translated essays by Theodor Adorno, Guido Adler, Paul Bekker, and Julius Korngold [Publisher description].

Author : Bryan Gilliam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521578957

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The Life of Richard Strauss by Bryan Gilliam Pdf

Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states. All the while he enjoyed a successful career as composer, as conductor of international stature, as organizer for the rights of composers, and as colleague of and collaborator with some of the most important composers, writers, and artists of his day. This biography covers Strauss's early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and failures of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.

Author : Norman Del Mar
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309436

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Richard Strauss by Norman Del Mar Pdf

Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic. Volume I deals with the years from the composer's birth (1864) to Der Rosenkavalier (1912), discussing the early orchestral and chamber music, the tone poems and the operas Guntram, Feuersnot, Salome and Elektra. 'Deploying a well-nigh encyclopaedic knowledge, Mr Del Mar acquits himself brilliantly of his task of disentangling and reassembling the numerous strands that make up the backcloth of poetry and philosophy which Strauss, while not always understanding every intricacy, yet needed as a constant reference map for his composing. The three volumes of this magnificent book should be studied by all lovers of the late-romantic music, amateurs and professionals alike...a monumental achievement.' Times Literary Supplement 'A brilliant and copiously analytical study ... a constant fascination.' Guardian

Author : Tim Ashley
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021694901

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Richard Strauss by Tim Ashley Pdf

A novel exploration of the 20th-century's most prominent German composer.

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521027748

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Richard Strauss by Michael Kennedy Pdf

This book re-evaluates a figure whom the author considers to be the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Kennedy deals fully with Strauss's life as leading composer and national figure in the Third Reich, during which he was both fêted and cold-shouldered by the authorities. In putting this period into perspective he draws heavily on hitherto ignored material, including Strauss's own letters and diaries. In addition he reveals much about Strauss's long, happy but tempestuous marriage to the soprano Pauline de Ahna as well as tracing the important relationships to his librettists Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Gregor and Clemens Krauss. Kennedy reassesses the man and the music, revealing a picture of a level-headed, practical and extremely versatile musician - a great conductor as well as a great composer.

Author : Bryan Gilliam
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822321149

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Richard Strauss by Bryan Gilliam Pdf

As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Stauss's death, scholarly interest in the composer continues to grow. Despite what was once a tendency by musicologists to overlook or deny Strauss's importance, these essays firmly place the German composer in the musical mainstream and situate him among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1992, this volume examines Strauss's life and work from a number of approaches and during various periods of his long career, opening up unique corridors of insight into a crucial time in German history. Contributors discuss Strauss as a young composer steeped in a conservative instrumental tradition, as a brash young modernist tone poet of the 1890s, as an important composer of twentieth-century German opera, and as a cultural icon manipulated by the national socialists during the 1930s and early 1940s. Individual essays use Strauss's creative work as a framework for larger musicological questions such as the tension between narrative and structure in program music, the problem of extended tonality at the turn of the century, stylistic choice versus stylistic obligation, and conflicting perspectives of progressive versus conservative music. This collection will interest Strauss scholars, musicologists, and those interested in the artistic and cultural life of Germany from 1880 through the Second World War. Contributors. Kofi Agawu, Günter Brosche, Bryan Gilliam, Stephen Hefling, James A. Hepokoski, Timothy L. Jackson, Michael Kennedy, Lewis Lockwood, Barbara A. Peterson, Pamela Potter, Reinhold Schlötterer, R. Larry Todd

Author : Derrick Puffett
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521359716

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Richard Strauss by Derrick Puffett Pdf

The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Strauss's most complex operas. First, P. E. Easterling surveys the mythological background, while Karen Forsyth discusses Hofmannsthal's adaptation of his sources. The second part brings the music to the fore. Derrick Puffett offers an introductory essay and synopsis; Arnold Whittall considers the tonal and dramatic structure of the composition; Tethys Carpenter explores the musical language of the work in detail, with special focus given to part of the Klytaemnestra scene. The third part of the volume offers two contrasting critical essays: Carolyn Abbate provides an interpretation informed by her recent work on narrative, and Robin Holloway analyses Strauss's orchestration of the opera. The book also contains a discography and an appendix of excerpts from the Strauss-Hofmannsthal correspondence.

Author : Charles Youmans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139828529

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The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss by Charles Youmans Pdf

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.

Author : Derrick Puffett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521359708

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Richard Strauss: Salome by Derrick Puffett Pdf

This first full-length study of Salome in English since Lawrence Gilman's (1907) moves from historical and literary analysis to critical appraisal and includes a synopsis, bibliography and discography.

Author : Charles Youmans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253345731

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Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition by Charles Youmans Pdf

A study of Strauss's orchestral activity from the perspective of late-19th-century German intellectual history.

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780977145515

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Richard Strauss's Salome by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's SALOME, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English side-by side, and over 25 music highlight examples.

Author : Wayne Heisler
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580463218

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The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss by Wayne Heisler Pdf

A richly interdisciplinary study of Strauss's contributions to ballet, his collaboration with prominent dance artists of his time, and his explorations of musical modernism.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Opera
ISBN : OCLC:465814480

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The Complete Operas of Verdi by Charles Osborne Pdf

Author : Charles Youmans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253021663

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Mahler and Strauss by Charles Youmans Pdf

A rare case among history's great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close friendship until Mahler's death in 1911. Unlike similar musical pairs (Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), these two composers may have disagreed on the matters of musical taste and social comportment, but deeply respected one another's artistic talents, freely exchanging advice from the earliest days of professional apprenticeship through the security and aggravations of artistic fame. Using a wealth of documentary material, this book reconstructs the 24-year relationship between Mahler and Strauss through collage—"a meaning that arises from fragments," to borrow Adorno's characterization of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. Fourteen different topics, all of central importance to the life and work of the two composers, provide distinct vantage points from which to view both the professional and personal relationships. Some address musical concerns: Wagnerism, program music, intertextuality, and the craft of conducting. Others treat the connection of music to related disciplines (philosophy, literature), or to matters relevant to artists in general (autobiography, irony). And the most intimate dimensions of life—childhood, marriage, personal character—are the most extensively and colorfully documented, offering an abundance of comparative material. This integrated look at Mahler and Strauss discloses provocative revelations about the two greatest western composers at the turn of the 20th century.

Author : Willi Schuh
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521241049

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Richard Strauss by Willi Schuh Pdf