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Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the
nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists.
Among his most well-known contributions to science are the
invention of the ophthalmoscope and grou- breaking work towards
formulating the law of the conservation of energy. The volume of
his work, reaching from medicine to physiology to physics and epis-
mology, his impact on the development of the sciences far beyond
German borders, and the contribution he made to the organization
and popularization of research, all established Helmholtz's
prominence both in the academic world and in public cultural life.
Helmholtz was also one of the last representatives of a conception
of nature that strove to reduce all phenomena to matter in motion.
In reaction to the increasingly insurmountable difficulties that
program had in fulfilling its own standards for s- entific
explanation, he developed elements of a modern understanding of
science that have remained of fundamental importance to this day.
Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the
nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists.
Among his most well-known contributions to science are the
invention of the ophthalmoscope and grou- breaking work towards
formulating the law of the conservation of energy. The volume of
his work, reaching from medicine to physiology to physics and epis-
mology, his impact on the development of the sciences far beyond
German borders, and the contribution he made to the organization
and popularization of research, all established Helmholtz's
prominence both in the academic world and in public cultural life.
Helmholtz was also one of the last representatives of a conception
of nature that strove to reduce all phenomena to matter in motion.
In reaction to the increasingly insurmountable difficulties that
program had in fulfilling its own standards for s- entific
explanation, he developed elements of a modern understanding of
science that have remained of fundamental importance to this day.
Jewish conductor Hermann Levi strove for excellence and recognition
as a composer and conductor of classical music in 19th-century
Germany. He unerringly devoted himself to the orchestral
performance of works by the two major figures of the time: Johannes
Brahms and Richard Wagner. In spite of the anti-Semitic atmosphere,
Levi saw the conducting of Wagner's works as a major calling: one
that pinnacled in the premier performance of Parsifal in Bayreuth.
In this biography, newly translated into English by Cynthia Klohr,
opera scholar and conductor Fritjof Haas surveys the life and work
of this remarkable individual. Born of a long line of rabbis and
raised on the ideals of political emancipation of Europe's Jews,
Levi sought to break the social constraints and boundaries imposed
upon him because of his religious heritage by the power brokers of
the classical music scene. Like so many German Jews of his
generation, Levi struggled nearly all his life to dissolve the
battle between personal lot and social prejudice. Drawing on the
wealth of material from the "Leviana" repository in Munich,
Germany, Haas artfully weaves together Levi's personal history with
his musical milieu to paint a portrait of this ambitious and
ambivalent figure in the world of 19th-century German music. This
work will be of special interest to musicologists, musicians, opera
fans, classical music listeners, and historians and scholars of
Judaic studies.
Georges Bizet spent almost his entire life in Paris, his hometown.
He never visited Spain. And yet his Carmen is considered by many
the epitome of Spanish opera. Bizet did not live to see Carmen's
enormous worldwide success. He died at the age of thirty-six, just
three months after his masterpiece took the stage for the first
time. Today his other remarkable works have been entirely eclipsed
by Carmen, masking the trajectory that led to the creation of one
of the world's most beloved operas. In almost all available
English-language biographies, serious errors abound, often informed
by romantic misconceptions surrounding the life of this remarkable
musician. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt's Georges
Bizet: A Biography is now widely recognized as the definitive work
on this misunderstood composer's life. Drawing on significant
recent research gathered for the revised and augmented 2011 German
edition-now translated into English by Cynthia Klohr-Schwandt
rewrites and restores the historical record concerning Bizet's
achievements and contributions to the world of music. This work is
ideal for students and scholars of opera history and aficionados of
what many consider one of the world's greatest operas ever written.
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