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Total Pages : 1156 pages
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Download or read book Schwann Opus written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christina Guillaumier
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ISBN 13 : 9781783274482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev written by Christina Guillaumier and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music and theatre. Opera was Prokofiev's preferred genre; not counting juvenile and unfinished works, he wrote a total of eight. Yet, to date, little has been published about the context, rationale or musical and compositional processes behind this output. While systematic studies of Prokofiev's symphonies and his ballets exist, the operas have come under no such scrutiny. This book is the first in the English language to engage with the composer's operatic output in its entirety and provides a contextual, critical and musico-analytical account of all of Prokofiev's operas, including those juvenile works that are unpublished as well as the incomplete works composed towards the end of his life. It also includes synopses of the operas. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and other sources, the book provides the compelling untold story of Prokofiev the opera composer. CHRISTINA GUILLAUMIER is a music historian, pianist and writer on music. She is currently Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music in London.
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195181670
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The People's Artist written by Simon Morrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in the Russian State Archives, where he uncovered a wealth of previously unknown scores, writings, correspondence, and unopened journals and diaries. The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals. Morrison shows that Prokofiev seemed to thrive on uncertainty during his Paris years, stashing scores in suitcases, and ultimately stunning his fellow emigres by returning to Stalin's Russia. At first, Stalin's regime treated him as a celebrity, but Morrison details how the bureaucratic machine ground him down with corrections and censorship (forcing rewrites of such major works as Romeo and Juliet), until it finally censured him in 1948, ending his career and breaking his health.
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Total Pages : 1614 pages
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Download or read book The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547844131
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Lina & Serge written by Simon Morrison and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin’s crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in his later years? The answers can finally be revealed, thanks to Simon Morrison’s unique and unfettered access to the family’s voluminous papers and his ability to reconstruct the tragic, riveting life of the composer’s wife, Lina. Morrison’s portrait of the marriage of Lina and Serge Prokofiev is the story of a remarkable woman who fought for survival in the face of unbearable betrayal and despair and of the irresistibly talented but heartlessly self-absorbed musician she married. Born to a Spanish father and Russian mother in Madrid at the end of the nineteenth century and raised in Brooklyn, Lina fell in love with a rising-star composer—and defied convention to be with him, courting public censure. She devoted her life to Serge and art, training to be an operatic soprano and following her brilliant husband to Stalin’s Russia. Just as Serge found initial acclaim—before becoming constricted by the harsh doctrine of socialist-realist music—Lina was at first accepted and later scorned, ending her singing career. Serge abandoned her and took up with another woman. Finally, Lina was arrested and shipped off to the gulag in 1948. She would be held in captivity for eight awful years. Meanwhile, Serge found himself the tool of an evil regime to which he was forced to accommodate himself. The contrast between Lina and Serge is one of strength and perseverance versus utter self-absorption, a remarkable human drama that draws on the forces of art, sacrifice, and the struggle against oppression. Readers will never forget the tragic drama of Lina’s life, and never listen to Serge’s music in quite the same way again.
Author : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
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ISBN 13 : 9780571227921
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Testimony written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and published by . This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia - but Shostakovich, fearing reprisals, stipulated that the book should not appear until after his death. Ever since its publication in 1979 it has been the subject of controversy, some suggesting that Volkov invented parts of it, but most affirming that it revealed a profoundly ambivalent Shostakovich which the world had never seen before - his life at once triumphant and tragic. Either way, it remains indispensable to an understanding of Shostakovich's life and work. Testimony is intense and fiercely ironic, both plain-spoken and outspoken.
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830983
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The People's Artist written by Simon Morrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in the Russian State Archives, where he uncovered a wealth of previously unknown scores, writings, correspondence, and unopened journals and diaries. The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals. Morrison shows that Prokofiev seemed to thrive on uncertainty during his Paris years, stashing scores in suitcases, and ultimately stunning his fellow emigrés by returning to Stalin's Russia. At first, Stalin's regime treated him as a celebrity, but Morrison details how the bureaucratic machine ground him down with corrections and censorship (forcing rewrites of such major works as Romeo and Juliet), until it finally censured him in 1948, ending his career and breaking his health.
Author : Nathan Seinen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110708878X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Prokofiev's Soviet Operas written by Nathan Seinen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Author : Sergey Prokofiev
Publisher : Doubleday Books
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Prokofiev by Prokofiev written by Sergey Prokofiev and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from Prokofiev's diaries, letters, and early compositions are contained in the world-famous Russian composer's account of his childhood in the Ukraine and musical training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Author : Sergey Prokofiev
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780898751499
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)
Download or read book S. Prokofiev written by Sergey Prokofiev and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Prokofiev was a bold innovator who eschewed the beaten path in art all his life, often in defiance of orthodox tastes. His compositions, many of which are today recognized masterpieces of musical art, usually evoked either genuine bewilderment or sharp criticism when first performed.Prokofiev's music is performed today all over the world; his works are studied at music schools everywhere.The first two parts of this book are devoted to the composer's own writings (his autobiographical notes, articles and reviews), the rest to articles about Prokofiev by prominent Soviet musicians, artists, and others who were associated with him at one or another period of his life.
Author : Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich Meĭerkholʹd
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ISBN 13 : 9781474230230
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Meyerhold on Theatre written by Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich Meĭerkholʹd and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyerhold was one of the foremost Russian directors of the stage and was considered by many to be the equal of Stanislavski. With a critical commentary by the editor these writings are essential reading for anyone studying Russian drama and culture.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199796017
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Music in the Early Twentieth Century written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Early Twentieth Century , the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's history, looks at the first half of the twentieth century, from the beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler, Strauss, Satie, and Debussy, the modern ballets of Stravinsky, the use of twelve-tone technique in the years following World War I, the music of Charles Ives, the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok, Stravinsky's neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music, the vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson, and the impact of totalitarianism on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich
Author : Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
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Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book My Musical Life written by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F. H. Schneider
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781480350939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26 written by F. H. Schneider and published by Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical/Opera Piano Solos
Author : Gerald Abraham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571302823
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Masters of Russian Music written by Gerald Abraham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936, Calvocoressi's and Abraham's study was the first complete account of its subject to appear in any language, including Russian, and was based on a large amount of original first-hand research. Over 75 years later Masters of Russian Music retains its power - as any study of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakof, Scriabin, Borodin et al really ought to, since these were composers whose extraordinary musical accomplishments still left room in their lives for all manner of other interesting (and sometimes eccentric) activities. The portraits in this volume are scholarly, authoritative, and highly lively - as befitting the eminent talents under discussion.
Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Russian Music and Nationalism written by Marina Frolova-Walker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music--its ineffable "Russianness"--Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar in 1836 to the death of Stalin in 1953, the years in which musical nationalism was encouraged and endorsed by the Russian state and its Soviet successor. The author identifies and discusses two central myths that dominated Russian culture during this period--that art revealed the Russian soul, and that this nationalist artistic tradition was founded by Glinka and Pushkin. The author also offers a critical account of how the imperatives of nationalist thought affected individual composers. In this way Frolova-Walker provides a new perspective on the brilliant creativity, innovation, and eventual stagnation within the tradition of Russian nationalist music.
Author : Robert P. Morgan
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ISBN 13 : 9780135901595
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Modern Times written by Robert P. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series is designed to present music in a broad context of socio-political, economic, intellectual and religious life.
