Beethoven's Century - Essays on Composers and Themes

Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janácek.

List of contents

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
Janácek'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 où tous sont musiciens...'
Modernisms that Failed

About the author

Hugh Macdonald

Product details

• Authors: Hugh MacDonald
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2008
• EAN: 9781580462754
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-275-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries