Kenneth Birkin

Hans von Bülow

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the life of one of the most important and influential musical figures of the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 734
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1197g
• ISBN-13: 9781107005860
• ISBN-10: 1107005868
• Artikelnr.: 32555123

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Birkin is an internationally recognised Richard Strauss scholar, and is the author of Friedenberg and Daphne (1989), Arabella (1989) and British Music: Elgar and After (1997), and the editor of Stefan Zweig - Joseph Gregor Correspondence 1921-1938 (1991). His work has appeared in many journals including Music and Letters, Opera Magazine, The Musical Times and Tempo. He has written and presented programmes for BBC Radio 3 and is the librettist of British composer John Joubert's three-act opera Jane Eyre.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Overture: Dresden, Leipzig, Stuttgart (1830-1848)
2. The student years: Leipzig, Berlin (1848-1850)
3. Decision time: Weimar-Zürich (1850-1851)
4. Weimar apprenticeship (1851-1853)
5. The young virtuoso: Austro-Hungary (1853-1854)
6. Polish interlude (1854-1855)
7. The pedagogue: Berlin I (1855-1857)
8. 'Gallant hotspur': Berlin II (1857-1859)
9. Rebel maturity: Berlin III (1859-1864)
10. The Wagner years: Munich (1864-1869)
11. A new start: Florence (1869-1873)
12. Triumph and betrayal - on tour: England and Russia (1873-1875)
13. Transatlantic adventure (1875-1876)
14. Convalescent interlude (June 1876-September 1877)
15. Bülow redux: Hanover, Glasgow (1877-1878)
16. Kapellmeister in Hanover (1877-1879)
17. Intendant in Meiningen (1880-1885)
18. The Philharmonic years I (1886-1889) Hamburg/Bremen/Berlin
19. The Philharmonic years II (1889-1890) America again/domestic crisis
20. The Philharmonic years III (1890-1892) Hamburg/Berlin
21. The Philharmonic years IV (1892-1894): Finale
Afterword: Bülow and Bayreuth
Appendix: Bülow performance chronology
Select bibliography.