The Lost Requiem Of Vienna

Author : Mark Christensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1687079560

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The Lost Requiem of Vienna by Mark Christensen Pdf

Composer Franz von Suppé's Requiem is lost in 1901. Decades later, a dispassionate American named Harry is sent to Vienna to scatter his grandmother's ashes on von Suppé's grave. It's the least he can do, since she spent her whole life hoping in vain to hear the lost Requiem. But in the cemetery, Harry stumbles upon a pathway to the 1850s and finds himself in old Vienna on the day of the Requiem's premiere. Determined to reach the premiere, he sets out with his grandmother's ashes on an adventurous journey through the bustling city, getting help from artists and public figures who are each dealing with a loss of their own, whether it's the loss of a loved one, an audience, or the body of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For Harry, there's no better time and place to find one's heart and learn how to grieve.

Author : J. Sydney Jones
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429983723

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Requiem in Vienna by J. Sydney Jones Pdf

"What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna." —Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author of the Queen Elizabeth I mystery series At first it seemed like a series of accidents plagued Vienna's Court Opera. But after a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production, the evidence suggests something much more dangerous. Someone is trying to murder the famed conductor and composer Gustav Mahler. Worse, Mahler might not be the first musical genius to be dispatched by this unknown killer. Alma Schindler, one of Mahler's many would-be mistresses, asks the lawyer and aspiring private investigator Karl Werthen to help stop the attacks. With his new wife, Berthe, and his old friend, the criminologist Hanns Gross, Werthen delves into Vienna's rich society of musicians to discover the identity of the person who has targeted one of Austria's best-known artists. Set during the peak of Vienna's cultural renaissance and featuring some of the city's most colorful residents, Requiem in Vienna is a perfect historical fiction. Rich in description and populated by vivid characters, this is a mystery that will leave readers guessing until the very last moment.

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271078

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Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 by David Wyn Jones Pdf

The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900.

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107116719

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Mozart in Vienna by Simon P. Keefe Pdf

Comprehensive and engaging exploration of Mozart's greatest works, focussing on his dual roles as performer and composer in Vienna.

Author : Daniel N. Leeson
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780875863283

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Opus Ultimum by Daniel N. Leeson Pdf

The haunting beauty of Mozart's Requiem and the tragic circumstances surrounding its composition have made it a favorite among performers and listeners alike. But how much of it actually Mozart's - and how do we know? Who wrote the missing pieces? What role did his wife, Constanze, play - and what about the man who secretly commissioned the work? Who tricked whom, and who had the last laugh in this grim tale? The author, an internationally recognized expert on Mozart, traces the complex web of events and intrigue surrounding the composition of the Requiem and how it was completed after Mozart's death. In an easy-to-read style, he presents an accurate, precise, complete narrative of the dramatic story; and with a spoonful of sugar, he introduces newcomers to some of the technical problems, clues, and terminology used in reconstructing such histories.

Author : Ingeborg Bachmann
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810127548

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The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann Pdf

These two fragments of novels, Ingeborg Bachmann's only untranslated works of fiction, were intended to follow the widely acclaimed Malina in a cycle to be entitled Todesarten, or Ways of Dying. Although Bachmann died before completing them, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann stand on their own, continuing Bachmann's tradition of using language to confront the disease plaguing human relationships. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria, Bachmann explores the ways of dying inflicted upon the living from outside and from within, through history, politics, religion, family, gender relations, and the self.Bachmann's allegiance to the twin muses of memory and history, as well as her perception of fascism as not being limited to the context of the war but also existing within the intimate relations of everyday life between husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, psychiatrists and patients' are supremely evident in The Book of Franza. Here, Bachmann follows a woman who escapes from a sanitorium and, after years of silence, sends her brother a cryptic telegram. Rightly suspecting that she has fled her sadistic husband -- a renowned Austrian psychiatrist whose intimate relations have merged with his studies of concentration camps -- her brother finds her in their childhood home. Together they travel to Egypt, where Franza slowly begins to regain her bearings. But Franza's desire to cleanse herself by journeying into the heart of the desert's void ends in tragedy, as she becomes the victim of a horrible act of violence.Unlike Franza, who attempts to flee her past but fails, the heroine of Requiem for Fanny Goldmann makes no attempt to escape her history. Thisnovel tells of the demise of a Viennese actress who is manipulated by a younger, ambitious playwright to advance his career. Deception follows disloyalty; the final treachery comes when the playwright portrays her in a novel, which secures his fame and, in Fanny's eyes, robs her of her future. Caught in a perpetual stasis, Fanny suffers in total obscurity, as her present is stolen from her as well.Whether analyzing the place where the self begins and the power of history ends or the ways in which women are forced to be complicit in their mistreatment at the hands of men, Bachmann's critical approach to the human psyche is unparalleled. Mesmerizing and profound, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann constitute the final evidence that Ingeborg Bachmann is the most important female German-language writer of the postwar period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970-02
Category : Austria
ISBN : UFL:31262095970249

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Austrian Information by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009254373

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Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century by Simon Keefe Pdf

Author : John Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521008786

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The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner by John Williamson Pdf

This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's Austrian background, investigating the historical circumstances in which he worked, his upbringing in Upper Austria, and his career in Vienna. A number of misunderstandings are dealt with in the light of recent research. The remainder of the book covers Bruckner's career as church musician and symphonist, with a chapter on the neglected secular vocal music. Religious, aesthetic, formal, harmonic, and instrumental aspects are considered, while one chapter confronts the problem of the editions of the symphonies. Two concluding chapters discuss the symphonies in performance, and the history of Bruckner-reception with particular reference to German Nationalism, the Third Reich and the appropriation of Bruckner by the Nazis.

Author : Gundula Kreuzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521519199

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Verdi and the Germans by Gundula Kreuzer Pdf

This book explores how the reception of Italian opera, epitomised by Verdi, influenced changing ideas of German musical and national identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Music
ISBN : IOWA:31858027514466

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The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Music
ISBN : CHI:74703467

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Musical Times and Singing Class Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria Hornor Lansdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Vienna
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039553834

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Vienna and the Viennese by Maria Hornor Lansdale Pdf

Author : Boman Desai
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504915885

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Trio by Boman Desai Pdf

The trio comprises three musical geniuses: Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Clara married Robert, with whom she fell in love when she was just sixteen, though it meant challenging the iron will of her father, who wished her to marry an earl or a count, certainly not an impoverished composer. The Schumanns had eight children, and Robert’s greatness as a composer was never in doubt, but he was also mentally ill, attempted suicide, and finally incarcerated himself in an asylum, where he died two and a half years later. Johannes Brahms entered the picture shortly before the incarceration and fell deeply in love with Clara but was just as deeply indebted to Robert for getting his first six opuses published within weeks of their meeting. Clara was forbidden to see Robert in the asylum because the doctors feared she would excite him too much. Brahms became a go-between for the couple, ferrying messages to and fro, but both loved Robert too well to abuse his trust. Brahms learned instead to associate deep love with deep renunciation—and, coupling this love with early experiences of playing dance music for sailors and prostitutes in Hamburg’s dockside bars, he became a victim to the Freudian conundrum: where he loves, he feels no passion, and where he feels passion, he cannot love. Germany grows in the hinterland of the story from four hundred-plus principalities to one nation under Bismarck. The great composers of the century (Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner among others) have their entrances and exits, and the ghosts of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert are never distant. Though firmly grounded in fact, the book unfolds like a novel, a narrative of love, insanity, suicide, revolution, politics, war, and of course, music.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032325

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Tait's Edinburgh magazine by Anonim Pdf