Chamber Music

Chamber Music
Author: Mark A. Radice
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472051652

A thorough overview and history of chamber music

Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Richter
Author: Bruno Monsaingeon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2002-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691095493

"Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover

Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin
Author: Stephen Lehmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2003-01-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195351444

This book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with emphasis on his European roots and the impact of his move to America. Based on his personal papers and correspondence, as well as extensive interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, the authors focus on three key aspects of Serkin's work, particularly as it unfolded in America: his art and career as a pianist, his activities as a pedagogue, including his long association with the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and his key role in institutionalizing a redefinition of musical values in America through his work as artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont. A candid and colorful blend of narrative and interviews, it offers a probing look into the life and character of this very private man and powerful musical personality.

Making New Music in Cold War Poland

Making New Music in Cold War Poland
Author: Lisa Jakelski
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520292545

Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festivalÕs institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festivalÕs worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists). This book explores social interactions within institutional frameworks and how these interactions shaped the practices, values, and concepts associated with new music. Ê

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Bennett Zon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317092384

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.

Dwight's journal of music

Dwight's journal of music
Author: John S Dwight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368121332

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

The Cambridge Companion to the Violin

The Cambridge Companion to the Violin
Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1992-12-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521399234

Enth. S.1 - 29: The violin and bow - origins and development / John Dilworth