Contents |
"Renovating" Bach and Handel: new musical biographies in the German Democratic Republic / Toby Thacker -- The nation's property: Chopin's biography as a cultural discourse / Jolanta T. Pekacz -- Maurice Ravel: private life, public works / Steven Huebner -- Lingering legends: Liszt after Walker / Michael Saffle -- Fanny in Italy: the female composer as travel writer / Marian Wilson Kimber -- This is (y)our life: (re-)writing women's autobiographies in music in nineteenth-century Germany / James Deaville -- Unremarkable musical lives: autobiograhical narratives, music, and the shaping of the self / David Gramit -- A life on film: Renato Castellani's The life of Verdi / John C. Tibbetts. |
Abstract |
The contributors to this volume challenge the view that biography has little importance for music history, analysis, and criticism. Collectively, they reassert biography's centrality and relevance, and demonstrate biography's potential to speak not only to the crucial questions that music analysis and criticism raise, but also to more general epistemological questions about the nature of music history itself. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index. |
LCCN | 2005017374 |
ISBN | 0754651517 (alk. paper) |