The great composers portrayed on film, 1913 through 2002 / Charles P. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Charles P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, publishers, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive filmography of biographical films featuring the lives of 65 great classical composers. Performances analyzed include Richard Burton as Richard Wagner, Cornel Wilde as Frederic Chopin, Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven, Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, among others. Arranged alphabetically by composer's name and illustrated1with stills and posters, the text provides a brief biography of each composer and analyzes the feature films portraying him or her. Emphasis is given to the factual accuracy of the screenplay, the validity of the po

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; Isaac Albéniz; Johann Sebastian Bach; Arnold Bax; Ludwig van Beethoven; Vincenzo Bellini; Hector Berlioz; Georges Bizet; Johannes Brahms; Anton Bruckner; Frederic Chopin; Aaron Copland; Claude Debussy; Frederick Delius; Gaetano Donizetti; George Gershwin; Mikhail Glinka; Charles Gounod; Percy Grainger; Edvard Grieg; George Frideric Handel; Franz Joseph Haydn; Victor Herbert; Bernard Herrmann; Charles Ives; Scott Joplin; Constant Lambert; Franz Liszt; Gustav Mahler; Marin Marais; Bohuslav Martinu; Pietro Mascagni; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Modeste MussorgskyCarl Nielsen; Jacques Offenbach; Ignace Jan Paderewski; Niccolò Paganini; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Giacomo Puccini; Henry Purcell; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Sigmund Romberg; Gioacchino Rossini; Camille Saint-Saëns; Pablo de Sarasate; Erik Satie; Franz Schubert; Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann; Dmitri Shostakovich; Jean Sibelius; Bedrich Smetana; John Philip Sousa; Leopold Stokowski; Johann Strauss, Jr., and Johann Strauss, Sr.; Richard Strauss; Igor Stravinsky; Arthur Sullivan; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Giuseppe Verdi; Heitor Villa-Lobos; Antonio Vivaldi

Richard WagnerPeter Warlock; Appendix A: Films about Fictional Composers; Appendix B: Composers on Series Television; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"The present work is a reprint of the illustrated case bound edition of The great composers portrayed on film, 1913 through 2002, first published in 2004 by McFarland."--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 8, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4766-0985-3