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Anton Bruckner : the man and the work / Constantin Floros ; translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B88 F613 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Floros, Constantin.
- Standardized Title:
- Anton Bruckner. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896--Psychology.
- Bruckner, Anton.
- Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2011]
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Character Portrait 3
- Who Was Bruckner? 5
- Authoritarianism and Self-Assurance 11
- The World as "Bad Lot" 14
- Neurosis 17
- Libido 20
- Emotionality 22
- The "Passionate Urge to Compose" 25
- Securing an Income 28
- Persecution Mania 30
- Worries about the Success of the Work 38
- Interest in the Exceptional 42
- "Sympathy with Death" 44
- Religiosity 48
- Plates 51
- Part 2 Sacred Music 59
- Personality and Oeuvre 61
- Music as Religious Confession 62
- A New, Dramatic Conception of the Mass 65
- The Credo Settings 68
- Religious Tone Symbolism 75
- Jubilant and Devotional Music 82
- "Let Me Not Be Confounded in Eternity" - The Te Deum 84
- Music as Song of Praise 91
- Part 3 The Symphonies 95
- The Fiction of "Absolute Music" 97
- Originality and Modernity 98
- Matters of Style 101
- How Bruckner Came to the Symphony 104
- Autobiographic Elements in the Second and Third Symphony 110
- The Allegiance to Richard Wagner 116
- The Triad of the Middle Symphonies 122
- The Seventh - a Second "Wagner Symphony" 127
- Secular and Religious 132
- Imaginations - Bruckner's Associations in the Eighth 143
- The Ninth - Bruckner's "Farewell to Life" 147
- Reflections on the Bruckner Interpretation - Günter Wand, Eugen Jochum and Sergiu Celibidache 159
- The Progressive 166.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783631614396
- 363161439X
- OCLC:
- 678924768
- Publisher Number:
- 99942586926
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