Frederick Delius

Frederick Delius
Author: Mary Christison Huismann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135848971

Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century. Widely studied and performed, his works are considered models of the British impressionist school and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This research guide serves as a ready reference for students and scholars, but will also be interesting to read and useful for anyone who wants to know where to begin to learn more about this important composer.

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch
Author: Sue Prideaux
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300124019

The biography of the artist who created the most haunting icon of the twentieth century

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch
Author: Vivian Campbell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300069529

Illustrated with black and white and colored prints from Edvard Munch. Original pictorial wrappers and color illustrated frontispiece. Published alongside the exhibition of the same name. "This exhibition considers Munch's relevance to a modern world through three interpretive paths." (From the forward) These paths are the technical methods Munch used as a Symbolist printmaker, his reception and exhibitions in North American, and Munch's influence in popular culture. With several essays and a chronology.

Edvard Munch and the Physiology of Symbolism

Edvard Munch and the Physiology of Symbolism
Author: Shelley Wood Cordulack
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0838638910

This book explores how and why the influential Norwegian artist Edvard Munch exploted late nineteenth-century physiology as a means to express the Symbolist soul. Munch's series of paintings through the 1890s, known collectively as the 'Frieze of Life', looked to the physiologically functioning (and malfunctioning) living organism for both its visual and organized metaphors.

Frederick Delius

Frederick Delius
Author: Lionel Carley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0429849192

First published in 1998, Carley collates twelve essays by an international group of contributors reflects the truly cosmopolitan nature of Delius’s life and his music. They reveal the manner in which he absorbed the culture of the nations he came to know, their music, art and literature, and the influences they brought to bare on his own work. Also discussed are some of the often mixed, but rarely equivocal reactions that performances of his music have reactions over the years, with Lionel Carley’s in-depth study of the first production of Foleraadet in 1897, and a wide ranging analysis by Don Gillespie and Robert Beckhard of the critical reception of Delius’s music in the United States between 1909 and 1920.

Delius and Norway

Delius and Norway
Author: Andrew J. Boyle
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 178327199X

Frontcover -- Contents -- List of illustrations and tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Selected glossary of landscape terms used in place names -- 1 Norway's awakening -- 2 1862-1888: Bradford, Florida and Leipzig -- 3 1888-1889: With Grieg on the heights -- 4 1890-1891: 'C'est de la Norderie' -- 5 1892-1895: Norway lost -- 6 1896: Norway regained -- 7 1897: Front page news -- 8 1898-1902: Unshakeable self-belief -- 9 1903-1907: Breakthrough in Germany and England -- 10 1908-1912: Changes of direction -- 11 1912-1918: High hills, dark forests -- 12 1919-1934: Myth and reality in Lesjaskog -- Appendix I: List of visits to Norway -- Appendix II: Works with Norwegian and Danish texts and associations -- Selected bibliography and archival sources -- Index

The Music of Frederick Delius

The Music of Frederick Delius
Author: Jeremy Dibble
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2021
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783275774

This book examines Delius's individual approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts which gave the composer's musical style such a unique voice.

The Story of Edvard Munch

The Story of Edvard Munch
Author: Ketil Bjornstad
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2013-06-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9573304805

A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters which is based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His troubled relationships, particularly with the opposite sex, are well documented as is his nervous disposition which complicated his entire existence and these aspects of his life are admirably brought alive by the author. Illustrated.