The Kreutzer Sonata

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000415636

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The Kreutzer Sonata by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : Michael R. Katz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300210392

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The Kreutzer Sonata Variations by Michael R. Katz Pdf

A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy’s controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglected constellation of counterstories written by the author’s wife and son in direct response to Tolstoy’s provocative tale, each a passionate attempt to undo the message of the original work. These radically conflicting tales, accompanied by excerpts from family letters, diaries, notes, and memoirs, provide readers with a vivid and highly revealing case study of the powerful disputes concerning sexuality and gender roles that erupted within the cultural context of late-nineteenth-century Russian, as well as European, society.

Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004342132

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Song Acts by Lawrence Kramer Pdf

This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings--some significantly revised for republication--on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include text-setting, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change.

Author : Thomas Wolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643131627

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The Nightingale's Sonata by Thomas Wolf Pdf

*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015078802587

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Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove Pdf

In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a 19th-century virtuoso violinist.

Author : Lewis Lockwood,Mark Kroll
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252029321

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The Beethoven Violin Sonatas by Lewis Lockwood,Mark Kroll Pdf

"Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll's volume The Beethoven Violin Sonatas is the first scholarly book in English devoted exclusively to the Beethoven sonatas and deals with them in unprecedented depth. Serving readers, listeners, and performers as a companion to the sonatas, it presents seven critical and historical essays by some of the most important American and European Beethoven specialists of our time.

Author : David Damschroder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781316477922

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Harmony in Beethoven by David Damschroder Pdf

David Damschroder's ongoing reformulation of harmonic theory continues with a dynamic exploration of how Beethoven molded and arranged chords to convey bold conceptions. This book's introductory chapters are organized in the manner of a nineteenth-century Harmonielehre, with individual considerations of the tonal system's key features illustrated by easy-to-comprehend block-chord examples derived from Beethoven's piano sonatas. In the masterworks section that follows, Damschroder presents detailed analyses of movements from the symphonies, piano and violin sonatas, and string quartets, and compares his outcomes with those of other analysts, including William E. Caplin, Robert Gauldin, Nicholas Marston, William J. Mitchell, Frank Samarotto, and Janet Schmalfeldt. Expanding upon analytical practices from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and strongly influenced by Schenkerian principles, this fresh perspective offers a stark contrast to conventional harmonic analysis – both in terms of how Roman numerals are deployed and how musical processes are described in words.

Author : Matt Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1941250440

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Ex Libris by Matt Madden Pdf

You are looking at (or: you are holding) the book Ex Libris by Matt Madden. Maybe you came looking for it, maybe you just came across it in a bookstore or at someone's house. Maybe you are reading this in a catalogue on a screen. What kind of adventure do you think takes place in these pages? To judge by the cover design and the title, it would seem that books themselves are a subject of this book. Does this book have a comic book as its hero? If you put the book down now, you'll never find out, but on the other hand imaginary, hypothetical versions of the story will branch off endlessly in some corner of your mind. If you do want to find out what happens, all you need to do is open the book and read the first page. But be careful: you might just get sucked in

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780857729347

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The Land of the Green Man by Carolyne Larrington Pdf

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the psyches of those who inhabit them? In this sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of fantastical beings has moulded the nation's cultural history. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Barguests, the sinister Nuckleavee and Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal. Ranging from Shetland to Jersey and from Ireland to East Anglia, while evoking the Wild Hunt, the ghostly bells of Lyonesse and the dread fenlands haunted by Grendel, this is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where giants lie in wait

Author : Kreutzer Rodolphe
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341679259

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Forty-Two Etudes Or Caprices for the Violin by Kreutzer Rodolphe Pdf

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Author : Leo Tolstoi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732632695

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The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoi Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoi

Author : Møller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004625419

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Postlude to the Kreutzer Sonata by Møller Pdf

In his study of The Kreutzer Sonata, Peter Ulf Moeller examines the actual literary process in all its stages, from the genesis and structure of the tale to its publication, reception and effect. He describes how Tolstoj shaped his ascetic message in a provocative artistic form, how it was received by the censors, the critics, the clergy, by the general public, by other writers and - last but not least - by the author's wife. Moeller goes on to show how Tolstoj's tale immediately gave rise to a counter-literature and, in the long term, led to the eulogies to the body and the senses, characteristic of Russian decadence. By shedding light on the sexual debate, Moeller's book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the interaction between literature and society in a crucial decade of Russian history. His account of the censorship, publication and reception history of The Kreutzer Sonata corrects and supplements existing information by making use of hitherto unpublished materials in Soviet archives. These materials include Countess Sof'ja Andreevna Tolstaja's counter-story Who is To Blame?, which affords valuable new insights into the Tolstoj's dramatic marriage.

Author : Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy,Leo Tolstoy,Benjamin R. Tucker
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499203853

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A Lost Opportunity by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy,Leo Tolstoy,Benjamin R. Tucker Pdf

A Superb New Edition of the Tolstoy Classic A Lost Opportunity by Leo Tolstoy "A Lost Opportunity" is an 1889 fable by the Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy. The story was included in The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories publication of 1889. A Lost Opportunity is a fable by Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy. The story leads in with a quote from the King James Bible, St. Matthew's "The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant". Written as a fable, A Lost Opportunity follows two neighboring families who are, at first, loving and respectful of one another. They treated each other as they wanted to be treated. Then the head of the families changed and the relationship between the families changed. Ivan and Gavryl were now the men in charge of their respective families and small arguments led to outright accusations of theft. The two families begin to feud with each other over small things. The wisdom offered by Ivan's father is ignored and verbal assaults turned physical. The physical assaults climax into Gravyl burning down Ivan's house, and the sparks from Ivan's house ignite Gravyl's house - both houses burn to the ground. The story ends with the two families returning a respectful temperament with each other as they rebuild their houses. (Summary, with permission, by author C. B. Carter)

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681952482

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The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

What Is Love? “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.” - Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata Upon hearing a woman arguing that marriage should never be arranged and always be subject to love, Pozdnyshev asks: ‘What is love?’ He condemns the argument saying that love doesn’t last forever and can quickly turn into hatred. What is Pozdnyshev’s story? Why doesn’t he believe in love? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847494795

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Three Novellas by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

One of Tolstoy's last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny's irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and helplessness in the face of his urges. Also included in this volume is Family Happiness, one of Tolstoy's earliest works, an entertaining and cynical account of marriage from the perspective of a disillusioned wife, and A Landowner's Morning.