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A string quartet by Ottorino Respighi.
Author : Ottorino Respighi
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457488887
A string quartet by Ottorino Respighi.
Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139826549
This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.
Author : William R. Everdell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226224813
This history of modernism is filled with portraits of genius and intellectual breakthroughs that evoke the "fin-de-siecle" atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St Louis and St Petersburg. This book offers readers a look at the unfolding of an age.
Author : Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 071454485X
The first complete study of one of the most important and controversial musicians of our time, Stuckenschmidt's book discusses all Schoenberg's works, some of them in great detail; it describes Schoenberg's relationship to his forerunners, contemporaries and successors not only in terms of music and the other arts, but also in connection with his social and psychological background.Many biographical details are revealed for the first time in this book; there had previously been no authoritative account of the last thirty years of Schoenberg's life. This book is thus both a biography of unique interest and a critical study.
Author : Charles Ives
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 1964
Category : String quartets
ISBN :
Author : Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1966
Category : String quartets
ISBN :
Author : Tully Potter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0907689787
Revised edition: Adolf Busch (1891-1952) was an all-round musician and a moral beacon in troubled times. As first violin of the Busch String Quartet, founded in 1912, he was the greatest quartet-player of the last century and he led a famous conductorless orchestra, the Busch Chamber Players. He was also the busiest solo violinist of the inter-War years, regularly performing major concertos with such conductors as Nikisch, Toscanini, Weingartner, Walter, Furtwängler, Boult, Wood, Barbirolli and his elder brother Fritz. He was, moreover, an outstanding composer whose works enjoyed performances in Germany and further afield. Frequently he appeared as soloist and composer in the same concert. His courageous decision to boycott his native country from April 1933 - despite Hitler's efforts to persuade 'our German violinist' to return - drastically reduced his income and damaged his career as soloist and composer. In 1938, because of Mussolini's race laws, he imposed a similar boycott on Italy, where he was wildly popular. The following year he emigrated with his quartet colleagues to the United States, where he was not fully appreciated, although he had many successes with a new chamber orchestra and founded the Marlboro summer school. This biography, based on more than thirty years' research, examines Busch's exemplary behaviour in the context of a tumultuous era. Volume One traces his progress from childhood in Westphalia, through friendships with Fritz Steinbach, Donald Tovey and Max Reger, early triumphs in Berlin, London and Vienna, years of maturity and fulfilment, rejection of Hitler's Germany and close bonds with British musicians and concert-goers in the 1930s. It ends just before his move into American exile. Volume Two follows Busch through the Second World War, his return to give concerts in Europe in the late 1940s and his founding of the Marlboro summer school in Vermont shortly before his untimely death. A series of appendices consider Busch as violinist, violist and teacher, his taste and repertoire, his interpretations, his colleagues, his celebrated recordings and his compositions.
Author : David Rounds
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.
Author : Thomas Frederick Dunhill
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Music
ISBN :
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Publisher : Michael Repoulis
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
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Category :
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