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  • Berg

    by Bryan R. Simms, Charlotte Erwin ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. His circle included not only the musicians of the Wiener modern but also prominent literary and artistic figures from Vienna's brilliant fin-de-siècle. In his short lifetime he composed two ground-breaking operas, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Pro Mundo - Pro Domo

    The Writings of Alban Berg

    by Bryan R. Simms ...
    Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the Viennese composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) and extensive commentaries tracing the history of each essay and its connection to musical culture of the early twentieth century. Berg is now recognized as a classic composer of the modern period, best known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Alban Berg

    A Research and Information Guide

    by Bryan R. Simms ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition is an annotated bibliography highlighting both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources that deal with Berg, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. It is a reliable, complete, and useful resource and a starting point for anyone—performer, teacher, student, or ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Brahms and His World

    Edited by Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss

    Edited by Charles Youmans ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • New Music at Darmstadt

    Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Crossing Paths

    Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

    by John Daverio ...
    In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of nineteenth-century sources, he considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Beethoven the Pianist

    by Tilman Skowroneck ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the composer's early career, outlining how he was influenced by teachers, theorists and instruments. ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Rufus Hallmark ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
    German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, including Shubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles, and issues of musical ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Lies and Epiphanies

    Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg

    by Chris Walton ...
    Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their epiphanies played a determining role in the reception history of their works: the finale of Mahler's Second Symphony was supposedly born of a "lightning bolt" of inspiration at the funeral of Hans von Bülow, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Schubert's Beethoven Project

    by John M. Gingerich ...
    Why couldn't Schubert get his 'great' C-Major Symphony performed? Why was he the first composer to consistently write four movements for his piano sonatas? Since neither Schubert's nor Beethoven's piano sonatas were ever performed in public, who did hear them? Addressing these questions and many others, John M. Gingerich provides a new understanding of Schubert's career and his relationship to ... Read more

    $43.49 USD