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Author Walton, Chris, 1963-

Title Othmar Schoeck : life and works / Chris Walton.

Publication Info. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML410.S3664 W35    Available  ---
Description xvii, 447 pages: illustration, music ; 24 cm.
Series Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 65
Eastman studies in music ; v. 65.
Bibliography "Concise work catalogue and discography": pages 327-381.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-411) and index.
Contents Introduction : Schoeck and the Swiss -- Childhood and youth -- Wolf amidst the sheep -- Leipzig, Munich, and an awful little moustache -- Back in the fold -- Hermann Hesse, via the dentist -- Look back in melancholy -- Chamber music -- The art of counterpoint -- Busoni -- The picture on the wall -- Touch of Venus -- Silent bronze -- Sucking sweet folly -- Self portrait, with sandwich -- Elegy -- Goodbye to Geneva -- The bee in the rose -- Raging queen -- Storms in the pigeon loft -- Into the vortex -- Wrong-note rag -- Hildebill -- Variations and fugue on an age-old theme -- Put to the wheel -- Gisela -- Lost in the stars -- Whores and madonnas -- "...he can write music all right..." -- Tea with (Ms.) Hitler -- Aryanizing music -- Arms and the man -- Castles in the air -- Goering's bullshit -- Collapse -- The people at home -- The reckoning -- Transfigured summer nights -- Silent lights -- Fair measure -- Rather nice horn -- Sleepless in Wollishofen -- Echoes and elegies -- Running on empty -- Epilogue.
Subject Schoeck, Othmar, 1886-1957.
Schoeck, Othmar, 1886-1957.
Composers -- Switzerland -- Biography.
Composers.
Switzerland.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Catalogs.
Catalogs.
ISBN 9781580463003 hardcover alkaline paper
1580463002