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Informationen zum Autor The late Charles P. Mitchell was a librarian in Millinocket, Maine. He wrote on film for numerous periodicals and on music for several more and hosted radio shows about classical music in New York City and Portland, Maine. Klappentext This book is a comprehensive filmography of biographical films featuring the lives of 65 great classical composers. Performances analyzed include Richard Burton as Richard Wagner, Cornel Wilde as Frederic Chopin, Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven, Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, among others. Arranged alphabetically by composer's name and illustrated1with stills and posters, the text provides a brief biography of each composer and analyzes the feature films portraying him or her. Emphasis is given to the factual accuracy of the screenplay, the validity of the portrayal, and the film's presentation of the composer's music. Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive filmography of biographical films featuring the lives of some of the great classical composers! including those figures whose music is likely to be performed in the concert hall or opera stage. This book analyzes performances - Richard Burton as Richard Wagner! and Cornel Wilde as Frederic Chopin. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Isaac Albéniz Johann Sebastian Bach Arnold Bax Ludwig van Beethoven Vincenzo Bellini Hector Berlioz Georges Bizet Johannes Brahms Anton Bruckner Frederic Chopin Aaron Copland Claude Debussy Frederick Delius Gaetano Donizetti George Gershwin Mikhail Glinka Charles Gounod Percy Grainger Edvard Grieg George Frideric Handel Franz Joseph Haydn Victor Herbert Bernard Herrmann Charles Ives Scott Joplin Constant Lambert Franz Liszt Gustav Mahler Marin Marais Bohuslav Martinu Pietro Mascagni Wolfgang AmadeusMozart Modeste Mussorgsky Carl Nielsen Jacques Offenbach Ignace Jan Paderewski Niccolò Paganini Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Giacomo Puccini Henry Purcell Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sigmund Romberg Gioacchino Rossini Camille Saint-Saëns Pablo de Sarasate Erik Satie Franz Schubert Robert Schumannand Clara Schumann Dmitri Shostakovich Jean Sibelius Bedrich Smetana John Philip Sousa Leopold Stokowski Johann Strauss, Jr.,Johann Strauss, Sr. 0227Richard Strauss Igor Stravinsky Arthur Sullivan Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Giuseppe Verdi Heitor Villa-Lobos Antonio Vivaldi Richard Wagner Peter Warlock Appendix A: Films about Fictional Composers Appendix B: Composers on Series Television Bibliography Index ...
