epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Melvin Berger [Berger, Melvin]

César Franck Born December 10, 1822 in Liège, Belgium Died November 8, 1890, in Paris BY all accounts, César Franck was an amazingly kind, gentle, good-hearted man, with a strong ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Fiona Maddocks [Maddocks, Fiona]

OLIVIER MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) (1941) January 1941. Temperatures below freezing. A German prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Silesia. Four musicians, one ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Paul Elie

epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Mark Evan Bonds

This is not to say that modernist composers rejected the premise of expression altogether, but rather that they discouraged the notion that it emanated first and foremost from the compositional ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-14 | Author:Saffle, Michael.

Liszt and Saint-Simonism Liszt was involved for a time with several revolutionary movements in 1830s France. The best study of his brief but active enthusiasm for the philosophical and socio-religious ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Richard D. Sylvester

epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Christoph Wolff

Doch neigest du das Haupt Yet you bow your Head Und sprichst stillschweigend: Ja. And say silently: Yes. The two key solo numbers of the St. John Passion, as well ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Cross

The graphs superimpose on this the tempos of three of Stravinsky’s recordings, from 1929, 1961 and 1967,72 and should lay to rest once and for all any misconception that Stravinsky ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Rebecca Cypess [Cypess, Rebecca]

Galileo, Bellarmino, and the Uses of Augustine It was not until the 1660s that Christiaan Huygens, son of the diplomat and amateur musician Constantijn Huygens, developed a portable watch with ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Kramer, Lawrence [Kramer, Lawrence]

4. If we step back now and reflect on this interpretation, its pattern runs something like this. An analytic description evolved into an account of musical self-division for which the ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-20 | Author:Cesare Civetta [Civetta, Cesare]

Valdengo continued, “One day, after having had me sing the first two acts, the Maestro again took time to illustrate Iago’s part for me. He got up from the piano ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Alan Walker [Walker, Alan]

A proclamation of Liszt’s Jubilee, November 1873: “Our Compatriot Franz Liszt.” (Illustration Credit 14.1) On the afternoon of November 9 there was a performance of Henrik Gobbi’s Liszt Cantata (a ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Manfred F. Bukofzer [Bukofzer, Manfred F.]

From Christopher Simpson’s The Division Violist Frontispiece to the libretto of Reinhold Keiser’s “Lucretia” The Psalms in an edition with flower pictures from Lust und Artzeney-Garten des Propheten Davids, 1675 ...

epub |eng | | Author:peter szendy [peter szendy]

The Phonograph in Court It is generally agreed that the phonograph was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1877. This invention was closely linked to the developments of telephony and ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Wendy Lesser

They were listening instead, in the period immediately preceding this quartet, to his latest symphony and his revived opera. And if op. 114 (the number he assigned to the updated ...