Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues

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Produktbeschreibung

Goethe and Zelter spent a staggering thirty-three years corresponding. Zelter's position as director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and Goethe's location in Weimar resulted in a wide-ranging correspondence. Goethe's letters offer a chronicle of his musical development, from the time of his journey to Italy to the final months of his life, while Zelter's letters retrace his path from stonemason to Professor of Music in Berlin. The 891 letters that passed between these artists provide an important musical record of the music performed in public concerts in Berlin and in the private and semi-public soirées of the Weimar court. The legacy contains a wide spectrum of letters, casual and thoughtfully composed, spontaneous and written for publication, rich with the details of Goethe's and Zelter's musical lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 604
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780754655206
• ISBN-10: 0754655202
• Artikelnr.: 44974320

Autorenporträt

Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Lecturer in the Department of Music at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
A musical Odyssey: 35 years of correspondence between Goethe and Zelter
Early years' correspondence 1796-1814
Middle years' correspondence 1815-1825
Later years' correspondence 1826-1832
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.