wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Life of Richard Strauss
ISBN: 9780521570190 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and misfires of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.
Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to ...
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230,41 zł |
Richard Strauss and His World
ISBN: 9780691027623 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time. In the essays Leon Botstein contradicts the notion of the composer's stylistic "about face"... Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strau... |
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359,68 zł |
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera
ISBN: 9780521456593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of German history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, the period of National Socialism, and the post-war years, which saw a divided East and West Germany. In the first...
Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth...
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Richard Strauss's Elektra
ISBN: 9780198166023 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Gilliam's study of this major work examines its musical-historical context and also provides a detailed analysis of some of its musical features. He establishes a chronology of the evolution of the opera and places it in the larger framework of German opera of the time. His detailed examination of the sketchbooks enables him to offer fresh insight into Strauss's use of motifs and overall tonal structure. In so doing he shows how the work's arresting dissonance...
Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Gilliam's study o...
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275,23 zł |
The Life of Richard Strauss
ISBN: 9780521578950 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and misfires of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.
Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to ...
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120,79 zł |
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera
ISBN: 9781108464789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss' stage works and their historical contexts.
Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss' stage works and their historical contexts.
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140,71 zł |
Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic
ISBN: 9780521022569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Following the collapse and ultimate overthrow of the Wilhelmine Empire, a new generation of artists found a fresh environment where they might flourish. Their optimism was accompanied by attempts to negate their recent past in various ways: by affirming modern technology, exploring music of a more remote past, and celebrating popular music. The essays contained in this volume address these fundamental issues. Examining the way in which German music was performed, staged, programmed, and received in the 1920s not only offers deeper insights into Weimar culture itself but sheds light on our...
Following the collapse and ultimate overthrow of the Wilhelmine Empire, a new generation of artists found a fresh environment where they might flouris...
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310,31 zł |