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Elliott Carter 19082012 was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring intellectually demanding and emotionally complex Distancing himself from the various schools and movements that grew and waned in popularity during the postwar era Carter cultivated a deeply personal musical style that he developed and refined up until the very end of his life This book of the composer springs from author David Schiffs lifelong interest in Elliott Carters music and his close personal connection with the composer which spanned over forty years This critical overview of Carters life and work explores aspects of the composers life about which he was usually reticentand occasionally misleadingsuch as his complicated relationships with Charles Ives Aaron Copland Nicolas Nabokov and his own parents Schiffs study of Carters complete oeuvrefrom his politically charged Depressionera ballets to the deeply personal and reflective late worksis based on extensive study of the composers personal sketches and letters Featuring an indepth look at the legacy project of Carters final decade seven settings of American modernist poetry by EE Cummings TS Eliot Marianne Moore Ezra Pound Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams this newest addition to the Master Musicians Series paints with a fine brush the story of Americas foremost composer of the second half of the twentieth century
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In this third edition of the classic Verdi renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy whose cause he had done much to promote and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision This concise study is an accessible insightful and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship acquainting the nonspecialist with the personal details Verdis life with the operatic world in which he worked and with his political ideas his intellectual vision and his powerful means of communicating them through his music In his survey of the music itself Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdis style He covers all of the operas the late religious works the songs and the string quartet A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdis time
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Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenthcentury composers Between 1810 and 1829 he wrote 39 operas a body of work comic and serious which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France His retirement from operatic composition in 1829 at the age of 37 was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man In reality political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832 Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twentyfive years before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s During this glorious Indian summer of his career he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his Sins of Old Age and his final masterpiece the Petite Messe solennelle The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateurthe witty highspirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen dayspersisted down the years until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of reevaluation by scholars performers and writers The original 1985 edition of Richard Osbornes pioneering and widely acclaimed Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre Twenty years on all Rossinis operas have been staged and recorded a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced and a scholarly edition of his correspondence including 250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents is in progress Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and performance this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds bestloved and most enigmatic composers
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A giant in the pantheon of 19th century composers Tchaikovsky continues to enthrall audiences today From the Nutcrackerarguably the most popular ballet currently on the boardsSwan Lake and Sleeping Beauty to Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame to the Symphony Pathetique and the always rousing canonblasting 1812 Overturethis prolific and beloved composers works are perennial favorites Now John Wiley a renowned Tchaikovsky scholar provides a fresh biography aimed in classic Master Musicians style at the student and music lover Wiley deftly draws on documents from imperial Soviet and postSoviet era sources providing a more balanced look at recent controversies surrounding the marriage death and sexuality of the composer The author dovetails the biographical material with separate chapters that treat the music thoroughly and fully workbywork with more substantial explorations of Tchaikovskys most familiar compositions These analyses present new even iconoclastic perspectives on the music and the composers intent and expression Several informative appendices in the Master Musicians format include an exhaustive list of works and bibliography
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In this third edition of the classic Verdi renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy whose cause he had done much to promote and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision This concise study is an accessible insightful and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship acquainting the nonspecialist with the personal details Verdis life with the operatic world in which he worked and with his political ideas his intellectual vision and his powerful means of communicating them through his music In his survey of the music itself Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdis style He covers all of the operas the late religious works the songs and the string quartet A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdis time
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Celebrating its 100th anniversary this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of musics geniuses Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music In a precise engaging and authoritative manner each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians inspirations influences life experiences even their weaknesses with an accessible discussion of their workall in roughly 300 pages Further each volume offers superb reference material including a detailed life and times chronology a complete list of works a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composers life and a select bibliography Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars serious musicians and all music lovers for another hundred years
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A collection of musical commentary and criticism by a famous music writer Includes essays such as Musical Reactions Bold and Otherwise and The Time Dimension in Music as well as a blackandwhite photograph of the author in the front of the book
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