Hugh Macdonald

Beethoven's Century (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Composers and Themes

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janácek.

In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time.
Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, andhow today's audiences can usefully approach it.
Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendshipbetween Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf.
Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera libretti in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janácek, are brought to life.
Beethoven's Century concludes with a wrylook at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked.

Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580467155
• Artikelnr.: 68308369

Autorenporträt

HUGH MACDONALD was the Avis Blewett Professor of Music, Washington University, St Louis from 1987 to 2011. He is the author of many important books, including Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes (URP, 2008), Music in 1853: the Biography of a Year (Boydell Press, 2012), and Saint-Saëns and the Stage (CUP, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Beethoven's Game of Cat and Mouse Schubert's Pendulum Paganini, Mendelssohn
and Turner in Scotland Berlioz and Schumann Alkan's Instruments Liszt the
Conductor Wolf's Adulation of Wagner in the Vienna Press Massenet's
Craftsmanship Skryabin's Conquest of Time Janácek's Narratives Raise Your
Glass to French Music! Comic Opera Repeats "G-flat Major, 9/8 Meter" The
Musicians' Arrondissement Les Anglais Dr. Mephistopheles The Prose Libretto
'Un pays où tous sont musiciens...' Modernisms that Failed