Concerts of Antient Music, ... As performed at the New Rooms, Hanover Square. 1820
Author : G. WILDING
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : G. WILDING
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Peter Holman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783274565
How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : ColinTimothy Eatock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 135155848X
This valuable book considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century England, and his influence on English musical culture. Despite the composer's immense popularity in the nation during his lifetime and in the decades following his death, this is the first book to deal exclusively with the subject of Mendelssohn in England. Mendelssohn's highly successful ten trips to Britain, between 1829 and 1847, are documented and discussed in detail, as are his relationships with English musicians and a variety of prominent figures. An introductory chapter describes the musical life of England (especially London) at the time of Mendelssohn's arrival and the last two chapters deal with the composer's posthumous reception, to the end of the Victorian era. Eatock reveals Mendelssohn as a catalyst for the expansion of English musical culture in the nineteenth century. In taking this position, the author challenges much of the extant literature on the subject and provides an engaging story that brings Mendelssohn and his English experiences to life.
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1984
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1984
Category : English literature
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Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : London
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199839379
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces--the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.