Composers on composers / John L. Holmes.
| Author/creator |
Holmes, John L., 1925- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Greenwood Press, 1990. |
| Description | ix, 189 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Mily Balakirev -- Béla Bartók -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Vincenzo Bellini -- Alban Berg -- Hector Berlioz -- Georges Bizet -- Ernest Bloch -- Arrigo Boito -- Alexander Borodin -- Pierre Boulez -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Ferruccio Busoni -- John Cage -- Emmanuel Chabrier -- Carlos Chávez -- Luigi Cherubini -- Frédéric Chopin -- Muzio Clementi -- Aaron Copland -- Claude Debussy -- Frederick Delius -- Antonín Dvořák -- Sir Edward Elgar -- César Franck -- George Gershwin -- Alexander Glazunov -- Mikhail Glinka -- Christoph Gluck -- Carl Goldmark -- Charles Gounod -- Edvard Grieg -- George Frideric Handel -- Roy Harris -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Hans Werner Henze -- Paul Hindemith -- Arthur Honegger -- Charles Ives -- Aram Khachaturian -- Zoltán Kodály -- Édouard Lalo -- Franz Lehár -- Franz Liszt -- Gustav Mahler -- Pietro Mascagni -- Jules Massenet -- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Olivier Messiaen -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Carl Nielsen -- Jacques Offenbach -- Giovanni Palestrina -- Sergey Prokofiev -- Giacomo Puccini -- Sergey Rachmaninov -- Maurice Ravel -- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Camille Saint-Saëns -- Erik Satie -- Domenico Scarlatti -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Alexander Scriabin -- Dmitry Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Johann Strauss -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Sergey Taneyev -- Peter Tchaikovsky -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Richard Wagner -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton von Webern -- Hugo Wolf. |
| Abstract | This reference provides a new perspective on the work of music's great composers from Bach to Stravinsky, by compiling the comments and criticism offered by other composers, such as Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and many others. The author presents an assessment of composers and musical developments as seen not specifically by the critics but by the composers' peers. While acknowledging that not all composers were necessarily perceptive critics and that few were able to sufficiently distance themselves from their own and others' work to be objective, the book offers many insights in the comments made by composers. The book is organized into 78 short chapters, each focusing on one composer and relating the complimentary or caustic comments made about him by as many as 20 other composers. The chapters are arranged alphabetically by composer and presented in a narrative form, offering years of birth and death and an introductory sentence along with the quotations. The sources of all quotations are documented in a separate note section, and an index of the 85 composers quoted and their subjects is also included. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 89011860 |
| ISBN | 0313266026 (lib. bdg. ; alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML90 .H64 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |