Essays on music Alfred Einstein.
| Author/creator |
Einstein, Alfred, 1880-1952 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | [1st edition]. |
| New York : W. W. Norton, [1956] | |
| Description | xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Fictions that have shaped musical history -- The mortality of opera -- Early concert life -- Opus I -- Opus ultimum -- Words and music -- Some musical representations of the temperaments -- The Elizabethan madrigal and Musica Transalpina -- Abbot Angelo Grillo's letters as source material for music history -- Agostino Steffani -- On certain manuscripts of Mozart -- Mozart and Tarchi -- A "King Theodore" opera -- Mozart and Shakespeare's The Tempest -- The first performance of Mozart's Entfuhrung in London -- The first libretto of Don Giovanni -- Recitatives in Don Giovanni -- Mozart's "Adelaide" concerto -- Haydn, Mozart, and English sea heroes -- Beethoven's military style -- Strauss and Hofmannsthal -- Wagner and Ludwig II. |
| Abstract | Alfred Einstein in Essays on Music brings his far-ranging scholarship, his writing abilities, and his wit and humor to bear on a variety of musical subjects, such as the mortality of opera, early concert life, words and music, Strauss and Hoffmansthal, Wagner and Ludwig II, Opus I and Opus Ultimum of many famous composers, together with a series of essays on Mozart. With his sharp eye for problems and an uncanny instinct for their solutions, Dr. Einstein has here made not only significant additions to musical letters, but also enjoyable and rewarding reading for the music lover. |
| LCCN | 56010095 |
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