The creative worlds of Joseph Joachim / edited by Valerie Woodring Goertzen, Robert Whitehouse Eshbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goertzen, Valerie Woodring, 1954- editor.

Eshbach, Robert Whitehouse, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907.

Joachim, Joseph.

Violinists--Hungary--Biography.

Violinists.

Composers--Hungary--Biography.

Composers.

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

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2021.

Summary:

Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of philological, philosophical and critical approaches.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Music Examples

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim

PART 1 Identity

1 “Of the Highest Good”: Joachim’s Relationship to Mendelssohn

2 Joseph Joachim and His Jewish Dilemma

3 Joachim and Romani Musicians: Their Relationship and Common Features in Performance Practice

PART 2 Joachim as Performer

4 Joachim’s Violins: Spotlights on Some of Them

5 (Re-)Enchanting Performance: Joachim and the Spirit of Beethoven

6 “Thou That Hast Been in England Many a Year”: The British Joachim

7 Joachim at the Crystal Palace

8 “Music Was Poured by Perfect Ministrants”: Joseph Joachim at the Monday Popular Concerts, London

9 “Das Quartett-Spiel ist doch wohl mein eigentliches Fach”: Joseph Joachim and the String Quartet

10 Professor Joachim and His Pupils

11 Performers as Authors of Music History: Joseph and Amalie Joachim

12 At the Intersection of Performance and Composition: Joseph Joachim and the Third Movement of Brahms’s Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26

PART 3 Joachim as Composer

13 Reconsidering the Young Composer-Performer Joseph Joachim, 1841–53

14 “Franz Liszt gewidmet”: Joseph Joachim’s G-Minor Violin Concerto, Op. 3

15 Drama and Music in Joachim’s Overture to Shakespeare’s Henry IV

16 “So Gleams the Past, the Light of Other Days”: Joachim’s Hebräische Melodien for Viola and Piano, Op. 9 (1854)

17 Tovey’s View of Joachim’s Hungarian Violin Concerto

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781800103894

1800103891

OCLC:

1281967846