Musicians of To-Day
Autor: Rolland, Romain
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ISBN: 9781443203746
Původní cena:
1919 Kč
Vaše cena:
1744 Kč
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Excerpt: BY ROMAIN ROLLAND AUTHOR OF ""JEAN-CHRISTOPHE"" TRANSLATED BY MARY BLAIKLOCK WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAUDE LANDI THE MUSICIAN'S BOOKSHELF. A NEW SERIES. Crown 8vo. Occasionally Illustrated. EDITED BY CLAUDE LANDI, L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M. NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1915 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BERLIOZ I BERLIOZ II WAGNER: ""SIEGFRIED"" WAGNER: ""TRISTAN"" CAMILLE SAINT-SANS VINCENT D'INDY RICHARD STRAUSS HUGO WOLF DON LORENZO PEROSI FRENCH AND GERMAN MUSIC CLAUDE DEBUSSY: ""Pellas et Mlisande"" THE AWAKENING: A SKETCH OF THE MUSICAL MOVEMENT IN PARIS SINCE 1870 PARIS AND MUSIC MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS BEFORE 1870 NEW MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS THE PRESENT CONDITION OF FRENCH MUSIC FOOTNOTES INTRODUCTION It is perhaps fitting that the series of volumes comprising The Musician's Bookshelf should be inaugurated by the present collection of essays. To the majority of English readers the name of that strange and forceful personality, Romain Rolland, is known only through his magnificent, intimate record of an artist's life and aspirations, embracing ten volumes, Jean-Christophe. This is not the place in which to discuss that masterpiece. A few biographical facts concerning the author may not, however, be out of place here. Romain Rolland is forty-eight years old. He was born on January 29, 1866, at Clamecy (Nivre), France. He came very early under the influence of Tolstoy and Wagner and displayed a remarkable critical faculty. In 1895 (at the age of twenty-nine) we find him awarded the coveted Grand Prix of the Acadmie Franaise for his work Histoire de l'Opra en Europe avant Lulli et Scarlatti, and in the same year he sustained, before the faculty of the Sorbonnewhere he now occupies the chair of musical criticisma remarkable dissertation on The Origin of the Modern Lyrical Dramahis thesis for the Doctorate. This, in reality, is a vehement protest against the indifference for the Art of Music which, up to that time, had always been displayed by the University. In 1903 he...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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