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Hans von Bülow : a life for music / by Kenneth Birkin.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML422.B9 B57 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birkin, Kenneth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bülow, Hans von, 1830-1894.
- Bülow, Hans von.
- Conductors (Music)--Germany--Biography.
- Conductors (Music).
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 715 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Drawing upon an extensive selection of rare letters, reviews and memoirs, Kenneth Birkin sets Hans von Bülow's work as a recitalist, chamber-music artist and orchestral conductor at the centre of a disturbed and eventful life. Bulow's Zukunfismusik advocacy and ruthless criticism of performance standards in Berlin and Munich antagonised a musical 'establishment' nonetheless spellbound by his keyboard and orchestral mastery. Birkin pays particular attention to the Tristan and Meistersinger premieres, Cosima's desertion, the European and American tours and operatic activities in Hamburg and Hanover, as well as Bulow's pedagogic activities and forays into musical journalism. The book makes liberal use of Bulow's correspondence, published and unpublished, which personalises the narrative. Contemporary comments and reviews, translated here for the first time, give the reader an insight into critical and public reaction. An extensive Appendix records the dates and venues of all Bulow's public appearances, as both pianist and conductor. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Overture : Dresden, Leipzig, Stuttgart (1830-1848)
- The student years : Leipzig, Berlin (1848-1850)
- Decision time : Weimar, Zürich (1850-1851)
- Weimar apprenticeship (1851-1853)
- The young virtuoso : Austro-Hungary (1853-1854)
- Polish interlude (1854-1855)
- The pedagogue : Berlin I (1855-1857)
- "Gallant hotspur" : Berlin II (1857-1859)
- Rebel maturity : Berlin III (1859
- 1864)
- The Wagner years : Munich (1864-1869)
- A new start : Florence (1869-1873)
- Triumph and betrayal
- On tour : England and Russia (1873-1875)
- Transatlantic adventure (1875-1876)
- Convalescent interlude (June 1876-September 1877)
- Bülow redux : Hanover, Glasgow (1877-1878)
- Kapellmeister in Hanover (1877-1879)
- Intendant in Meiningen (1880-1885)
- The Philharmonic years I (1886-1889) : Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin
- The Philharmonic years II (1889-1890) : America again, domestic crisis
- The Philharmonic years III (1890-1892) : Hamburg, Berlin
- The Philharmonic years IV (1892-1894) : finale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107005860
- 1107005868
- OCLC:
- 676730927
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