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Informationen zum Autor Chris Walton Klappentext Places the Swiss composer Schoeck! master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent! in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works. Zusammenfassung Places the Swiss composer Schoeck! master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent! in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Schoeck and the SwissChildhood and YouthWolf amidst the SheepLeipzig, Munich, and an Awful Little MoustacheBack in the FoldHermann Hesse, via the DentistLook Back in MelancholyChamber MusicThe Art of CounterpointBusoniThe Picture on the WallTouch of VenusSilent BronzeSucking Sweet FollySelf Portrait, with SandwichElegyGoodbye to GenevaThe Bee in the RoseRaging QueenStorms in the Pigeon LoftInto the VortexWrong-Note RagHildebillVariations and Fugue on an Age-Old ThemePut to the WheelGiselaLost in the StarsWhores and Madonnas". . . he can write music all right . . ."Tea with (Ms.) HitlerAryanizing MusicArms and the ManCastles in the AirGoering's BullshitCollapseThe People at HomeThe ReckoningTransfigured Summer NightsSilent LightsFair MeasureRather Nice HornSleepless in WollishofenEchoes and ElegiesRunning on EmptyEpilogueOthmar Schoeck: Concise Work Catalogue and DiscographyNotesBibliographyIndex