Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

• Hardcover | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 43
• A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a ... Lees meer

Shostakovich and His World

Laurel E. Fay

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 15
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in ... Lees meer

Mahler and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 13
• From the composer's lifetime to the present day, Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. Poised between... Lees meer

Dvorak and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 4
• Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics ... Lees meer

Janácek and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 14
• Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the mos... Lees meer

Debussy and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 12
• Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French... Lees meer

Alban Berg and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 24
• An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composer Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as... Lees meer

Nadia Boulanger and Her World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians o... Lees meer

Charles Ives and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 7
• This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European mus... Lees meer

Mendelssohn and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 2
• During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German a... Lees meer

Bartók and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 6
• Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the ... Lees meer

Sergey Prokofiev and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 53
• Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigi... Lees meer

Rachmaninoff and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of a... Lees meer

Beethoven and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 11
• Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a c... Lees meer

Edward Elgar and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 18
• Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from ... Lees meer

Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 43
• A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a ... Lees meer

Giacomo Puccini and His World

Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 41
• Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attentio... Lees meer

Haydn and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 8
• Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical... Lees meer

Franz Schubert and His World

Christopher H Gibbsmorton So

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 37
• The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, fr... Lees meer

Richard Wagner and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 21
• Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirati... Lees meer

Jean Sibelius and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 25
• New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all time Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the musi... Lees meer

Vaughan Williams and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was one of the most... Lees meer

Rachmaninoff and His World

• Hardcover | Engels | Bard Music Festival
• A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of a... Lees meer

Aaron Copland and His World

• Paperback | Engels | Bard Music Festival | nr. 54
• Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the re... Lees meer