Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Expression (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9780007459599
A novel with three narrative strands: 4th century Rome, Weimar Germany, and late 20th century London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards the small coterie and its passionately held beliefs and secrets with suspicion and hostility. It is the story of eccentricity, its struggle and its triumph.
Author : Zoë Alexis Lang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107022681
Zoë Alexis Lang explores constructions of twentieth-century Austrian identity through an examination of commentary on Johann Strauss, Jr's waltzes.
Author : Jason Waldron
Publisher : L.T.P. Publications
Page : pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1997-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780947183660
Contains another 35 of the world's most popular melodies by the greatest Classical Composers of all time, arranged brilliantly for Classical Guitar. They include well known masterpieces by Schubert & Tchaikovsky.
Author : Johann Strauss
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769200439
Johann Strauss, Jr., 'The Waltz King, ' is the master composer featured in this volume. His most popular waltzes and polkas, including 'The Blue Danube, ' 'The Emperor Waltz, ' 'Voices of Spring, ' 'Artist's Life, ' and 'Tales from the Vienna Woods, ' are highlighted. This book contains an extra treat in that it also includes works by other members of the Strauss family, namely those of the brothers Josef and Eduard. 28 titles on 144 pages.
Author : Allison Pataki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147679023X
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love story of Sisi, the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph—perfect for fans of the Netflix series The Empress! The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess of Bavaria, travels to the Habsburg Court with her older sister, who is betrothed to the young emperor. But shortly after her arrival at court, Sisi finds herself in an unexpected dilemma: she has inadvertently fallen for and won the heart of her sister’s groom. Franz Joseph reneges on his earlier proposal and declares his intention to marry Sisi instead. Thrust onto the throne of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court, Sisi upsets political and familial loyalties in her quest to win, and keep, the love of her emperor, her people, and of the world. With Pataki’s rich period detail and cast of complex, bewitching characters, The Accidental Empress offers “another absolutely compelling story” (Mary Higgins Clark) with this glimpse into one of history’s most intriguing royal families, shedding new light on the glittering Hapsburg Empire and its most mesmerizing, most beloved “Fairy Queen.”
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590208447
The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer
Author : Joyce Sidman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547529228
Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze, come smell your way among the trees, come touch rough bark and leathered leaves: Welcome to the night. Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk. Where the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time in the light. Where the porcupette eats delicacies—raspberry leaves!—and coos and sings. Come out to the cool, night wood, and buzz and hoot and howl—but do beware of the great horned owl—for it’s wild and it’s windy way out in the woods!
Author : Johann Strauss
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Popular music
ISBN :
Author : Johann Strauss, Jr.
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2002-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457470934
This Kalmus Edition offers a collection of piano duet transcriptions of operetta overtures that are great fun for two people at one piano. Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.
Author : Hans Fantel
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Composers
ISBN :
The story of two great musicians whose waltzes came to symbolize Vienna in the 19th century, this book reveals a father jealous of his son's talent and a defiant son whose career flourished in spite of his father's efforts to destroy it.
