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  • Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action

    A Life in Parts

    by Steven J. Kraftchick, R. Barry Matlock, Robert Morgan, Christophe Chalamet, Harald Schützeichel, Predrag Cicovacki, Claus Günzler, Ulrich H. J. Körtner, Xutong Qu, Thomas Suermann, Anthony J. Steinhoff, Werner Zager, Nils Ole Oermann, Ward Blanton ...
    Series series Albert Schweitzer Library
    In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the great intellectual leaders of his time. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a man of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wall Flower

    A Life on the German Border

    by Rita Kuczynski ...
    Translated by Anthony J. Steinhoff ...
    In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years.Kuczynski’s fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Total Work of Art

    Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

    Edited by Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Anthony J. Steinhoff, David Imhoof ...
    Series Book 12 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk’s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Total Work of Art

    Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

    Edited by David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Anthony J. Steinhoff ...
    Series Book 12 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk’s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Bertolt Brecht

    by Philip Glahn ...
    Series Book 51 - Critical Lives
    Playwright, poet and activist Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was known for his theory of the Epic Theatre and his attempts to break down the division between high art and popular culture. The Threepenny Opera, his collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, was a milestone in musical theatre, and plays like Mother Courage and Galileo changed the course of modern drama and aesthetic theory.Framed by two ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Richard Wagner and His World

    Edited by Thomas S. Grey ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Forbidden Music

    The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

    by Mr. Michael Haas ...
    With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Total Work of Art

    From Bayreuth to Cyberspace

    by Matthew Wilson Smith ...
    The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film studies, music history, history of art, cultural studies, and modern European literatures. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Franz Liszt and His World

    Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbé, he reinvented the concert experience, advanced a progressive agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, rethought the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Richard Wagner

    A Life in Music

    by Martin Geck ...
    Translated by Stewart Spencer ...
    "[An] intriguing exploration of the composer's life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography." — Library JournalBest known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the ... Read more

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