Beethoven's century : essays on composers and themes

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Beethoven's century : essays on composers and themes

Hugh Macdonald

(Eastman studies in music)

University of Rochester Press, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janacek. In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, andhow today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendshipbetween Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera libretti in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janacek, are brought to life. Beethoven's Century concludes with a wrylook at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.

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Beethoven's Game of Cat and Mouse Schubert's Pendulum Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland Berlioz and Schumann Alkan's Instruments Liszt the Conductor Wolf's Adulation of Wagner in the Vienna Press Massenet's Craftsmanship Skryabin's Conquest of Time Janacek's Narratives Raise Your Glass to French Music! Comic Opera Repeats "G-flat Major, 9/8 Meter" The Musicians' Arrondissement Les Anglais Dr. Mephistopheles The Prose Libretto 'Un pays ou tous sont musiciens...' Modernisms that Failed

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