Beethoven's century : essays on composers and themes / Hugh Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Eastman studies in music 1071-9989

Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.

Summary:

Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Jancek.

Contents:

Composers. Beethoven's game of cat and mouse ; Schubert's pendulum ; Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland ; Berlioz and Schumann ; Alkan's instruments ; Liszt the conductor ; Wolf's Wagner ; Massenet's craftsmanship ; Skryabin's conquest of time ; Janáček's narratives

Themes. Raise your glass to French music! ; Comic opera ; Repeats ; [G-flat major, 9/8 meter] ; The musicians' arrondissement ; Les anglais ; Dr. Mephistopheles ; The prose libretto ; 'Un pays où tous sont musiciens

' ; Modernisms that failed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781580462754

1580462758

OCLC:

183610689