Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has
tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and
Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a
lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected
his best work to make up this volume (first published in 1968), one
of exceptional breadth and fascination.
The subjects range from the relationship of Slavonic music to
the western world, to detailed essays on figures such as Chopin,
Dvorak, Rubinstein and Mussorgsky. A study of realism in Janacek's
operas contains a particularly fine analysis of "From a House of
the Dead" and there is an account of the fantastic 'erotic diary'
for piano in which Zdenek Fibich, one of the finest
nineteenth-century Czech symphonists, recorded the secrets of his
love affair with former student and librettist Aneka Schulzova.
Gerald Abraham (1904-1988) was a distinguished musicologist,
among his official posts those of Professor of Music at the
University of Liverpool and Assistant Controller of Music at the
BBC.
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