Jean Sibelius's violin concerto / Tina K. Ramnarine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramnarine, Tina K., author.

Series:

Oxford keynotes.

The Oxford keynotes series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957.

Sibelius, Jean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 148 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book highlights the unique insights that Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D Minor (op. 47) offers into the composer's musical imagination, violin virtuosity, and connections between violin-playing traditions. It discusses the concerto's cultural contexts, performers who are connected with its early history, and recordings of the work. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations to be a virtuoso player, the book traces the composition of the concerto at a dramatic political moment in Finnish history. This concerto was composed when Finland was going through a period of intense struggle for self-determination and protest against Russian imperial policies. Taking the concerto's historical context into consideration leads to a new paradigm of the 20th-century virtuoso as a political figure, which replaces 19th-century representations of the virtuoso as a magical figure.

Contents:

Sibelius as violinist and composer

Musical life in Helsinki (1880-1905) : A context for Sibelius's Violin concerto

Composing the Violin concerto

Regional and transnational traditions of violin playing

The Violin concerto on record

Legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-061156-1

0-19-061157-X

0-19-061155-3