Overtones : a book of temperaments: Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, Nietzsche, and Turgénieff / by James Huneker.
| Author/creator |
Huneker, James, 1857-1921 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1928 [1904] | |
| Description | vii, 335 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 20 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Richard Strauss -- Parsifal a mystical melodrama. -- The book -- The music -- Nietzsche the rhapsodist -- Literary men who loved music. -- The musical taste of Turgenieff -- Balzac as music critic -- Alphonse Daudet -- George Moore -- Evelyn Innes -- Sister Teresa -- Anarchs of art -- The Beethoven of French prose. -- Flaubert and his art -- The two Salammbos -- Verdi and Boito. -- Boito's Mefistofele -- The eternal feminine -- After Wagner what. -- The caprice of the musical cat -- Wagner and the French -- Isolde and Tristan. |
| General note | Several of the foregoing essays have appeared in Scribner's magazine, the Musical courier, Criterion, Harper's bazar, Metropolitan, New York Sun, and elsewhere. They have been greatly altered and amplified for republication. |
| LCCN | 04006947 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML60 .H93 1928 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |