Revival: Outspoken Essays on Music (1922)

List of contents

PART I 1. The Ideas of M. Vincent D’Indy 2. The Manuscript Libretto of "Faust" 3. Liszt, the Pianist 4. The False Masterpieces of Music 5. A Note on Rameau 6. A Chopin M.S.: The F Major Ballade in the Making PART II 7. Helene 8. Sarasate 9. Musical Digressions 10. The Metronome 11. Observations of a Friend of Animals 12. Impressions of America 13. Chopin 14. Charles Gounod on Mozarts "Don Juan" 15. The Origin of Samson and Delilah 16. Modern Music 17. Gounod

About the author

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).

Summary

A series of essays on reactions and emotional responses to music.

Product details

• Authors: Fred Rothwell, Camille Saint-Saens, Camille Saint-Saëns, Saint-Saens Camille
• Assisted by: Fred Rothwell (Translation), Rothwell Fred (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138563087
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56308-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Music, Media Studies, MUSIC / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, MUSIC / Reference, Reference works