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Franz Liszt and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 17
• No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his... Lees meer

Korngold and His World

• Hardcover | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 47
• A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional pro... Lees meer

Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 43
• A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a ... Lees meer

Sergey Prokofiev and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 19
• Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigi... Lees meer

Nadia Boulanger and Her World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians o... Lees meer

Rachmaninoff and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of a... Lees meer

Richard Wagner and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 21
• Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirati... Lees meer

Mahler and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 13
• From the composer's lifetime to the present day, Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. Poised between... Lees meer

Aaron Copland and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 16
• Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the re... Lees meer

Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

• Hardcover | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 43
• A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a ... Lees meer

Schoenberg and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 10
• As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted compose... Lees meer

Franz Schubert and His World

Christopher H Gibbsmorton So

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 37
• The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, fr... Lees meer

Camille Saint-Saëns and His World

• Hardcover | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 32
• A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-Saëns Camille Saint-Saëns-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late ninete... Lees meer

Brahms and His World

Frisch Walter

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 20
• Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, ... Lees meer

Vaughan Williams and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was one of the most... Lees meer

Bartók and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 6
• Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the ... Lees meer

Edward Elgar and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 18
• Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from ... Lees meer

Charles Ives and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 7
• This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European mus... Lees meer

Korngold and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 47
• A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional pro... Lees meer

Giacomo Puccini and His World

Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 41
• Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attentio... Lees meer

Debussy and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 12
• Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French... Lees meer

Richard Strauss and His World

Gilliam Bryan

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 3
• Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss ... Lees meer

Jean Sibelius and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 25
• New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all time Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the musi... Lees meer

Mendelssohn and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 2
• During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German a... Lees meer