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The Brown Book, so-called by Wagner for its calf binding, was a gift from Cosima, and used by him, when apart from her, to record his thoughts and feelings about her, for her later perusal. So, in the early pages, he pours out passionate declarations and reproaches. But after they had taken up residence together at Triebschen, its contents became more general--a prose sketch of Parsifal, many poems, drafts of two comedies, a moving memoir of the tenor...
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A biographical sketch combined with a detailed analysis of each of his major types of composition, including vocal music, organ music, keyboard music, and instrumental music. Many Bach compositions are examined and evaluated in relation to the rest of the composer's work, as well as in relation to the music of his contemporaries. More than seventy musical examples enable the reader to understand how Bach worked and to observe his music in various...
9) Wagner
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"Richard Wagner, more than any other figure, reflected the many contradictory intellectual, spiritual, and artistic movements of the nineteenth century. His musical dramas revolutionized opera. He also commented compulsively on art, drama, politics, and philosophy in his voluminous writings and correspondence."--Publisher's description.
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"Why produce another biography of Wagner? There are a number of answers to this question. In the first place, the archives are being opened and new documents are appearing all the time. Dr von Westernhagen, a scholar who has devoted his life to Wagner, has produced the only general biography on this scale which is truly up-to-date in making use of this fresh archive material. In the second place, there is a need for a biography which focuses on Wagner's...
12) Bach
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"Bach is an entirely new volume in the "Master Musicians" series, replacing the old entry by Malcolm Boyd with updated coverage of the composer's life and works. Tracing the composer's biography from origins in Thuringia to mastery as cantor and music director at Leipzig, the book sets Bach in the cultural context of early modern Europe. Family life, social structure, and court culture are among the topics examined from the perspective of contemporary...
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"George Marek's is the first full-scale biography of Richard Strauss--composer of Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Till Eulenspiegel, Death and Transfiguration and other operatic and symphonic masterpieces--to examine with courage and candor the man behind the music. Strauss composed a self-portrait in Ein Heldenleben ('A hero's life'), but Mr. Marek finds the life anything but heroic. Strauss composed a Domestic Symphony full of sentiment, but Frau Strauss...
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Other composers have fans, but Richard Wagner has disciples. No musician or dramatist of the past century polarizes like him, and a whole universe of associations opens up when one speaks of "Wagnerians." The program questions what about Wagnerism is truly Wagner. What was the composer's position on Christianity or, as some claim, what turned him toward Buddhism at the end of his life? What do the mysterious words, "salvation to the Redeemer" from...
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This book provides an integrated study of Richard Wagner, his life and works. The author covers all the main aspects of Wagner's works within a coherent biographical framework, basing his account on such primary sources as Wagner's autobiographical writings and letters, the reminiscences of Liszt, Nietzsche, and other friends and associates, and the complete diary of Cosima, first published in 1977.
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