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Zusatztext It's a valuable, friendly companion, whether you're onstage or in the audience...Keller provides authoritative historical backgrounds and absorbing analytical reports for each work...This is a book to desire. Informationen zum Autor James Keller, longtime Program Annotator of the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, was awarded the prestigious ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for feature writing about music in Chamber Music magazine, where he has been Contributing Editor for more than a decade. Klappentext Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present. Zusammenfassung Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Anton Arensky Johann Sebastian Bach Samuel Barber Bela Bartok Ludwig van Beethoven Alban Berg Alexander Borodin Johannes Brahms Benjamin Britten Elliott Carter Aaron Copland Ruth Crawford Seeger George Crumb Achille-Claude Debussy Ernst von Dohnanyi Antonin Dvorak Edward Elgar Georges Enesco Gabriel Faure Cesar Franck Mikhail Glinka Osvaldo Golijov Edvard Grieg Franz Joseph Haydn Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Paul Hindemith Jacques Ibert Charles Ives Leos Janacek Zoltan Kodaly Gyorgy Ligetti Bohuslav Martinu Felix Mendelssohn Olivier Messiaen Wolfgang Amade Mozart Carl Nielsen Francis Poulenc Sergei Prokofiev Maurice Ravel Steve Reich Silvestre Revueltas Camille Saint-Saens Arnold Schoenberg Franz Peter Schubert Clara Wieck Schumann Robert Schumann Dmitri Shostakovich Jean Sibelius Bedrich Smetana Igor Stravinsky Karol Szymanowski Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky Joan Tower Carl Maria von Weber Anton Webern Hugo Wolf ...
