Richard Strauss - Brossura

Kennedy, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198165811 ISBN 13: 9780198165811

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie,Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.
Extensively revised, this well-received account of Richard Strauss's life and music enters its second edition. The life was rich in controversy, from the `outrage' caused by operasSalome and Elektra to the years under the Nazi regime. In his survey of the music, rejecting the generally accepted view that Strauss's genius declined in his middle years, Michael Kennedy traces refinements of style from the early 1920s to Strauss's late works.

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Book by Kennedy Michael

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198165811
• ISBN 13: 9780198165811
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 237