Dvorak and His World (eBook)

Michael Beckerman (Herausgeber)

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2012
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3169-2 (ISBN)

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Michael Beckerman is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Antonin Dvorak made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorak's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal. The essays, which make up the first part of the book, begin with Leon Botstein's inquiry into the reception of Dvorak's work in German-speaking Europe, in England, and in America. Commenting on the relationship between Dvorak and Brahms, David Beveridge offers the first detailed portrait of perhaps the most interesting artistic friendship of the era. Joseph Horowitz explores the context in which the "e;New World"e; Symphony was premiered a century ago, offering an absorbing account of New York musical life at that time. In discussing Dvorak as a composer of operas, Jan Smaczny provides an unexpected slant on the widely held view of him as a "e;nationalist"e; composer. Michael Beckerman further investigates this view of Dvorak by raising the question of the role nationalism played in music of the nineteenth century. The second part of this volume presents Dvorak's correspondence and reminiscences as well as unpublished reviews and criticism from the Czech press. It includes a series of documents from the composer's American years, a translation of the review of Rusalka's premiere with the photographs that accompanied the article, and Janacek's analyses of the symphonic poems. Many of these documents are published in English for the first time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2012
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones 61 music exs.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Aaron Copland • absolute music • Adolf Loos • Anton Bruckner • Antonín Dvorák • Arthur Farwell • Bedrich Smetana • Belisario • Charles Martin Loeffler • Composer • Conducting • culture and society • Darius Milhaud • Dear Sir • Dies Irae • dimitrij • Dudley Buck • Eduard Hanslick • Edvard Grieg • Edward MacDowell • enfer • Entr'acte • Ernest Bloch • Ethnocentrism • evocation • Felix Mendelssohn • Felix Salzer • for example • Francis Galton • Franz Kafka • Fritz Simrock • Furiant • gamut • giovinezza • Grand opera • Gustav Hinrichs • Hanns Eisler • Hans Heiling • Harry Burleigh • Hector Berlioz • Heinrich Schenker • Here in America • H. L. Mencken • Hoedown • Hugo Riemann • Hugo Wolf • Humoresque • Ignacy Jan Paderewski • Il Trovatore • In Nature's Realm (Dvorák) • James Huneker • Janek • Jeannette Thurber • Johannes Brahms • John Knowles Paine • Josef Bohuslav Foerster • Kerry Mills • Kytice • La Muette de Portici • Leitmotif • Leon Botstein • Leoš Janácek • Les Huguenots • Libretto • Margaret Ruthven Lang • Maurice Peress • Maurice Sendak • Má vlast • Max Bruch • Music Is • Nabucco • Neoclassicism • Nibelungenlied • Norbert Elias • Olin Downes • oratorio • Otello • Overture • Parody • Parsifal • Paul Bekker • Phrase (music) • Populism • Program music • Richard Wagner • Rigoletto • Romanticism • Rubinstein • Serialism • Slavonic Dances • Songwriter • Symphonic Poem • The Bartered Bride • The Devil and Kate • The Narrative • Tutzing • V. • Verismo (music) • Wilhelm Gericke • Zeit
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3169-5 / 1400831695
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3169-2 / 9781400831692