Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Rilegato

Korstvedt, Benjamin M.

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ISBN 10: 0521632269 ISBN 13: 9780521632263

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Riassunto

Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its music, at once extensive and distilled, directly confronts the problem of the symphony after Beethoven and after Wagner. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and offers an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates, by means of a study of well-known recordings, how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions.

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Recensione:

'What [this book] does reveal is enough to keep Bruckner-enthusiasts agonising and arguing for decades.' BBC Music Magazine

Descrizione del libro:

Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles, offering an accessible guide to its compositional history and reception and to its musical design.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521632269
• ISBN 13: 9780521632263
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 146