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Author : HENRY T. FINCK
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033504335
Author : Ernst Krause
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
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Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042363924
Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Company
Page : 392 pages
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Release : 1917
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007898789
Richard Strauss, The Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
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Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0795040121
Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
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Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 143656557X
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Henry T Finck
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298349435
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Author : Norman Del Mar
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309436
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 : Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691027625
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 : Raymond Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0300126425
Renowned as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major conductor. This book considers Strauss' career as a conductor and places it in relation to his life as a composer.
Author : Norman Del Mar
Publisher : Random House Business
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002150416
'I know what I want, and I know what I meant when I wrote this. After all I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.' These words were addressed by Richard Strauss himself to the Royal Philharmonia Orchestra during rehearsal. This was in 1947 when Sir Thomas Beecham, to whom the author was then associate conductor, had organized a Strauss Festival which Strauss had come to London to attend. 'Everyone,' writes the author, 'was agog to see this legendary figure from the past, many of whose works--predominantly the earlier ones--are as much part of the classical repertoire as, for example, the Brahms symphonies. Was he really still alive?' Strauss's remark was not 'false modesty,' continues the author, 'but neither is it by any means the whole truth. Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Elektra are indeed the products of a first-rate composer, but scarcely Die Frau ohne Schatten and Sinfonia Domestica. In fact, for two or possibly even three periods in his career Strauss rose to heights of supreme genius, only to fall back in between on merest talent. 'A first-class second-rate composer' is a fair assessment for a certain part of his creative life--but certainly cannot stand as an overall judgement on one of the world's greatest musicians. This paradox is the theme of my book.' The first volume takes Strauss's work up to, and including, Der Rosenkavalier, which may legitimately be regarded as the climax of his career, as well as convenient half-way mark. The mass of songs, however, together with a number of smaller choral and instrumental works of an occasional nature, has been held over from a volume which threatened to become far too long and cumbersome. They are dealt with as a whole in Volumes II and III. A critical commentary on Strauss, whose almost inexhaustible flow of easily assimilated tunes went hand in hand with epoch-making discoveries of new musical means and heroic flights into the music of the future, has been long needed. The author now provides it, adding a wealth of knowledge to musical history. He also examines the literary sources from Strauss's inspiration--both for the operas and the tone poems. --from dust jacket.
Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Music
ISBN : HARVARD:ML1D75
Richard Strauss, The Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Charles Youmans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253021663
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 : Bryan Gilliam
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822321149
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 : Bryan Gilliam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521578957
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 : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521581737
Was Richard Strauss the most incandescent composer of the twentieth century or merely a bourgeoisie artist and Nazi sympathizer? For the fifty years since his death on September 8, 1949, Richard Strauss has remained dogmatically elusive in the wider body of musical and historical criticism. Lauded as nothing less than the "greatest musical figure" of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. As recently as 1995, the English critic Rodney Milnes wrote, "the court of posterity is still reserving judgment." In Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, biographer Michael Kennedy demonstrates that the many varying shades of criticism that have painted this figure in the past half century resemble the similar understandings and misunderstandings held by his contemporaries--perceptions that touched almost every aspect of Strauss' life and career. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle, Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man who resembled a "prosperous bank manager;" the arch-fiend of modernism and the composer who redefined the term; a man who professed to lack all spiritual curiosity and a musician who penned the touching ballet Der Kometentanz; an at times almost humble family man and an artist who claimed to be as interesting as Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Kennedy clearly elucidates his enigmatic subject by building his analysis around the few constants in Strauss' life: his profound admiration for German culture, his dependence on his own family for guidance, and his "Nietzschean total absorption in art." This frame offers everyone from Straussian scholars to general readers an insightful and easy-to-follow biographical narrative. Kennedy also deals at length with Strauss' problematic relationship with Nazi authorities, detailing his incompatible roles as the father-in-law of a Jewish woman and as one of the country's leading composers. Michael Kennedy is the chief music critic of the (London) Sunday Telegraph and the author of many books about music.
