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The International Who s Who in Classical Music 2016 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved 2016 edition.

Each biographical entry comprises personal information, principal career details, repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details where available. Appendices provide contact details for national orchestras, opera companies, music festivals, music organizations and major...

This edition of Messa da Requiem is based on Verdi's autograph score and other original sources. The appendices include two pieces from the compositional history of the Requiem an early version of the Libera me, composed in 1869 as part of a collaborative work planned as a memorial to Rossini; and the Liber scriptus, which in the...

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I'm lost now for the world) I chose the figure of Gustav Mahler as my study and Mahler's extraordinary epigraph is amongst the best written. The highlight of the entire collection is the wonderful Ruckertlieder. This quotation summarise and reflects the personal anxieties of Gustav Mahler: I'm lost now for the world, where before I had wasted a lot of time; for a long time no one has heard of me, and maybe they even believe that I'm dead But if the world thinks I'm dead I don't give a damn. Because you really are dead to the world. And finally resting...

First published in 1985, this book draws together the author's artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociological enquiry. It interprets a 'work of art' as a site on which a viewer or critic is invited to share in questioning celebration of the painting itself. The author reassesses modern painting's relation to its own origins and to tradition in light of the emergence of 'postmodern' practice -- exploring its engagement of fundamental questions about language and being. Also assessed is the relevance of the metaphors of writings and Reading to an...

More than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composer's mind, unveiling a creative process of astonishing scope and originality.

For musicians and nonmusicians alike, Beethoven's symphonies stand at the summit of artistic achievement, loved today as they were two hundred years ago for their emotional cogency, variety, and unprecedented individuality. Beethoven labored to complete nine of them over his lifetime--a quarter...

Great composers all, but their musical legacy is still rarely acknowledged.

Since the birth of classical music, those women who dared to compose have been patronized, had their sex lives scrutinized and the veracity of their authorship questioned. They worked within a musical culture where beliefs about what women could and could not do determined their every move. Yet, time and again there emerged individuals who would evade,...

Allegro Appassionato, Op.43, was composed by Camille Saint-SaEns for cello and piano in 1873 and later he realized the version for cello and orchestra (1876).

The work in its original form had its premiEre in February 1873 at a concert of the SociEtE Nationale de Musique with the cellist Jules-Bernard Laserre (1838-1906), to whom it was dedicated.

This transcription of Allegro Appassionato for flute and harp by Elia Guarneri Silvino and Monica Turoni is based on the cello and piano Durand's first edition (1875).