| Description |
360 pages : music ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Slavonic music and the western world -- Chopin and the orchestra -- The genesis of The bartered bride -- Dvořák's musical personality -- An erotic diary for piano -- Realism in Janáček'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 self-critic -- Rimsky-Korsakov's songs -- Random notes on Lyadov -- Glazunov and the string quartet -- The best of Spontini -- Hoffmann as composer -- Weber as novelist and critic -- Marschner and Wagner -- The scores of Mendelssohn's Hebrides -- Schumann's op. II 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 Bartók of the quartets. |
| Subject |
Music -- Europe -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Europe. |
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Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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