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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the
most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and
source editions, this book demonstrates the close interrelationship
between Tchaikovsky's life and his work. The author portrays the
versatility of the musician who died at the mere age of 53 under
controversial circumstances in St. Petersburg. About the German
edition of this book: "[...] Constantin Floros devotes himself
initially to the biography and then to the compositional oeuvre,
divided according to genre and supplemented by concrete
illustrations, thus giving greater significance to the music."
(Forum Musikbibliothek 27, 2006) "[...] the music gets more weight
of its own in the more detailed analyses - illustrated with
revealing note citations - which yet always remain readily
accessible." (Steffen A. Schmidt, Das Orchester 02/2007)
The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between
"establishment" and "outsiders" in science and scholarship. It
portrays a number of prominent composers, conductors and
musicologists and seeks to illuminate the nature of the phenomenon
of music from diverse vantage points, centering on cultural,
biographic, psychological, philosophic, critical, aesthetic and
axiological questions. Lutz Lesle (Das Orchester, 2018): At the
price of being deemed an outsider, Floros has devoted a major part
of his life's work to the semantic dimension of music, from the
Viennese Classics to Postmodernism. His endeavor has been to
preserve for music the dignity of manifold meaning that the school
of bean counters were stripping from it by reducing musical scores
to structure-analytical databases. "To simply ignore the spiritual
depth dimension of important musical art works," the author bluntly
proclaims, "and to limit oneself to the investigation of the 'tonal
body': to me there is no greater aberration."
To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned
and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a
subordinate role - at least as important it is to be consciously
aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and
expressions. Following general reflections about the art of
listening, the volume in hand presents exemplary work analyses. The
roster of composers introduced extends from Mozart to Bernstein,
that of the genres discussed from the piano piece to the opera. A
detailed register and a survey of the chief works referred to make
this book an indispensable companion for both scholars and laymen.
About the German edition of this book: "In Floros' book all these
details unite to form a magnificent mosaic. Individual works
discussed meet us in an entirely new light, and we begin to
decipher the language of music with a different set of tools."
(Helmut Peters)
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