Slavonic and Romantic music ; essays and studies / by Gerald Abraham.
| Author/creator | Abraham, Gerald |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : St. Martin's Press, [1968] |
| Copyright Date | �1968 |
| Description | 360 pages : music ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Slavonic music and the western world -- Chopin and the orchestra -- The genesis of the 'Bartered Bride' -- Dvorak's musical personality -- An erotic diary for piano -- Realism in Janacek's operas -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian composer -- Tchaikovsky : some centennial reflections -- Tchaikovsky's operas -- Mussorgsky's 'Boris' and Pushkin's -- The Mediterranean element in 'Boris Godunov' -- Rimsky-Korsakov as a self-critic -- Rimsky-Korsakov's songs -- Random notes on Lyadov -- Glazunov and the string quartet -- The best of Spontini -- Hoffmann as a composer -- Weber as novelist and critic -- Marschner and Wagner -- The scores of Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides' -- Schumann's Op. I and III -- Schumann's 'Jugendsinfonie' in G minor -- The three scores of Schumann's D minor symphony -- On a dull overture by Schumann -- Wagner's second thoughts -- Nietzsche's attitude to Wagner : a fresh view -- An outline of Mahler -- Delius and his literary sources -- The Bartok of the quartets. |
| Abstract | Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first published in 1968), one of exceptional breadth and fascination. The subjects range from the relationship of Slavonic music to the western world, to detailed essays on figures such as Chopin, Dvorák, Rubinstein and Mussorgsky. A study of realism in Janacek's operas contains a particularly fine analysis of From a House of the Dead and there is an account of the fantastic 'erotic diary' for piano in which Zdenek Fibich, one of the finest nineteenth-century Czech symphonists, recorded the secrets of his love affair with former student and librettist Anezka Schulzová. |
| LCCN | 68013029 |
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