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The first English translation of Bizet's letters and journals from
his stay in Italy, with explanatory texts from one of the leading
authorities on the composer's life and music. In 1857, Georges
Bizet (1838-1875) won the prestigious Prix de Rome scholarship
which allowed him to study in Italy for a few years at the expense
of the French state. While Bizet's correspondence from this time
suggests that he was not fond of Italian music, he was especially
drawn to the landscape and Italian Renaissance art and painting.
Though Bizet's thoughts later turned away from rural life and the
masterpieces of the Renaissance, his letters and journals from this
period document the growth of a young musician who would eventually
write Carmen. Translated into English for the first time, Bizet's
letters from his stay in Italy (at the Villa Medici in Rome, with
expeditions to various other parts of the country) reveal much
about his character and tastes. These extraordinary documents are
fully annotated, and presented alongside never-before-published
translations of Bizet's journals from the same years. Linking
textual guides supplied by one of the leading authorities on the
composer provide unique insights into the composer's formative
years that cannot be found anywhere else.
This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's
second collection of musical articles, originally published in
1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of
light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.
Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique is the only one of
his books that has never been translated into English in its
entirety. It is by far the funniest of all his works, and consists
of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and
comments on the absurdities of concert life. Alastair Bruce's fluid
translation brings to life this important composer and bon vivant.
He does a wonderful job of conveying all the puns, jokes, and
invective of Berlioz's prose as well as the nuances of his stories.
He even imitates a Tahitian accent in the translation, as Berlioz
does in the original. The notes will give the reader insight into
the innuendos and in-jokes that fill the pages. This translation
will take its place among other translations of Berlioz's prose
writings, bringing to the reader more lively examples of a still
misunderstood composer caught up in the musical life of
mid-nineteenth century Paris. Alastair Bruce is a London-based
management consultant and former treasurer of the Berlioz Society.
Hugh Macdonald is General Editor of New Berlioz Edition.
The ten most momentous days in the history of Scottish football, by
ten of Scotland's best historians and journalists. several of whom
are award winners.
No one composer is at the centre of this fascinating story, but a
larger picture emerges of a shift in musical scenery, from the
world of the innocent Romanticism of Berlioz and Schumann to the
more potent musical politics of Wagner, and of his antidote (as
many saw him), Brahms. Why 1853? For many leading composers this
year brought far-reaching changes to their lives: Brahms emerged
from obscurity to celebrity, Schumann ceased to be an active
composer, and both Berlioz and Wagner became active again after
long silences. By limiting the perspective to a single year yet
extending it to a group of musicians, their constant
interconnections become the central motif: Brahms meets Berlioz and
Liszt as well as Schumann; Liszt is a constant link in every chain;
Joachim is close to all of them; Wagner is on everyone's mind. No
one composer is at the centre of the story, but a network of
musicians spreads across the map of Europe from London and Paris to
Leipzig and Zurich. Music in 1853 shows how musicians were now more
closely connected than ever before, through the constant exchange
of letters and the rapidly expanding railway network. The book
links geography and day-to-day events to show how international the
European musical scene had become. A larger picture emerges of a
shift in musical scenery, from the world of the innocent
Romanticism of Berlioz and Schumann to the more potent musical
politics of Wagner and of his antidote (as many saw him) Brahms.
HUGH MACDONALD is Avis H. Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music at
Washington University, St Louis. He has authored books on Skryabin
and Berlioz and has previously published Beethoven's Century:
Essays on Composers and Themes with Boydell/URP.
New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David
Cairns, Joel-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and
other prominent experts. These twelve essays bring new breadth and
depth to our knowledge of the life and work of the composer of the
Symphonie fantastique. A distinguished international array of
scholars here treat such matters as Berlioz's "aesthetics" and what
it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political
implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as
composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before
his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he
visited their capital city; what he seems to have written
immediately after encountering Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a
surprise), and where he profited from Beethoven in what later
became Romeo et Juliette. The volume closes with two reflective
essays on Berlioz's literary masterpiece, the Memoires.
Contributors: Lord Aberdare (Alastair Bruce), Jean-Pierre Bartoli,
JacquesBarzun, Peter Bloom, David Cairns, Gunther Braam, Gerard
Conde, Pepijn van Doesburg, Joel-Marie Fauquet, Frank Heidlberger,
Hugh Macdonald, and Julian Rushton Peter Bloom (Smith College) is
author of The Life of Berlioz (1998) and editor of The Cambridge
Companion to Berlioz (2000).
Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the
topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to
Scriabin and Janacek. In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers
and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws
together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time
into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and
updated, and some are printed in English for the first time.
Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music
meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be
played, andhow today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening
with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard
for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical
personality, the brief friendshipbetween Berlioz and Schumann,
Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as
expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French
opera libretti in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's
long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric
personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan,
Skryabin, and Janacek, are brought to life. Beethoven's Century
concludes with a wrylook at some startling developments in early
twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh
Macdonald has taught music at the Universities of Cambridge,
Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett
Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St.
Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a
regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony
Orchestras.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
If you want your family enterprise to prosper and carry on your
legacy after you're gone, then you need to learn "The Metronome
Method," a metaphor for the creation of a Family Agreement.
Hugh MacDonald, owner and founder of the Canadian Succession
Protection Company, provides a fun approach to succession and
estate planning with this guidebook. Relying on his background as a
musician, he uses the metaphor of music and the metronome to show
that a family needs to compose its own songbook in the form of a
Family Agreement and rehearse it before their opening performance
as owners.
There are simple steps you can take to get your house in order
before you, the conductor, leave the stage. You can learn how to
prepare family members for the responsibility of ownership; provide
a framework for your enterprise to survive for centuries; create a
plan that establishes a shared vision for future generations; and
build consensus among family members in and outside the
business.
Help your family deal effectively with succession and estate
planning, and have fun along the way by learning from an expert who
has years helping family enterprises succeed.
If you want your family enterprise to prosper and carry on your
legacy after you're gone, then you need to learn "The Metronome
Method," a metaphor for the creation of a Family Agreement.
Hugh MacDonald, owner and founder of the Canadian Succession
Protection Company, provides a fun approach to succession and
estate planning with this guidebook. Relying on his background as a
musician, he uses the metaphor of music and the metronome to show
that a family needs to compose its own songbook in the form of a
Family Agreement and rehearse it before their opening performance
as owners.
There are simple steps you can take to get your house in order
before you, the conductor, leave the stage. You can learn how to
prepare family members for the responsibility of ownership; provide
a framework for your enterprise to survive for centuries; create a
plan that establishes a shared vision for future generations; and
build consensus among family members in and outside the
business.
Help your family deal effectively with succession and estate
planning, and have fun along the way by learning from an expert who
has years helping family enterprises succeed.
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Title: Days at the Coast: a series of sketches descriptive of the
Frith of Clyde ... Monumental edition.Publisher: British Library,
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