George Frederick Bristow

Katherine K. Preston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2020
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08532-1 (ISBN)

Infos

As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of its most energetic champions and practitioners. Katherine K. Preston explores the life and works of a figure admired in his own time and credited today with producing the first American grand opera and composing important works that ranged from oratorios to symphonies to chamber music. Preston reveals Bristow's passion for creating and promoting music, his skills as a businessman and educator, the respect paid him by contemporaries and students, and his tireless work as both a composer and in-demand performer. As she examines Bristow against the backdrop of the music scene in New York City, Preston illuminates the little-known creative and performance culture that he helped define and create.
 
Vivid and richly detailed, George Frederick Bristow enriches our perceptions of musical life in nineteenth-century America.

Autor

Katherine K. Preston is a professor emerita of music at the College of William & Mary. Her five books and many edited volumes include Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late Nineteenth-Century America and Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825–1860.  

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 "The Life of a Musician: Troubles & Trials & Emergence as a Composer
Interlude A Pedagogy I: Private Teaching
Chapter 2 Fry and Willis: Bristow Becomes an Americanist
Chapter 3 The 1850s: During Which Young Apollo Becomes a Jack-of-All-Trades and a Renowned Musician
Interlude B Sacred Music: Church Music Director and Sacred Composer
Chapter 4 The 1860s: Personal and National Agony and Triumph
Interlude C Pedagogy II: Teaching in Schools
Chapter 5 The 1870s: “A Manly and Patriotic” Composer of “Native Independence and Originality”
Interlude D George Bristow as Businessman and Musical Authority
Chapter 6 The Stalwart Educator and Composer
Conclusion
Notes
Discography
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: American Composers
• Zusatzinfo: 6 black & white photographs, 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 340 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• ISBN-10: 0-252-08532-9 / 0252085329
• ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08532-1 / 9780252085321
• Zustand: Neuware