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Mozart - A Life (Paperback): Maynard Solomon Mozart - A Life (Paperback)
Maynard Solomon
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R644 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R83 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on the latest research, including Mozart family correspondence recently released, this fully illustrated and definitive portrait of one of the most revered yet enigmatic figures of all time reveals heretofore unknown facets of Mozart's complicated family background and explodes the myth of this musical genius as the "eternal child". Photos & musical pieces.

Memories of Beethoven - From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards (Book, Revised): Gerhard Von Breuning Memories of Beethoven - From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards (Book, Revised)
Gerhard Von Breuning; Edited by Maynard Solomon; Translated by Henry Mins, Maynard Solomon
R785 R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Save R65 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These are the personal memories of an elderly man who, as a child, was closely acquainted with Beethoven. Gerhard von Breuning, the son of one of Beethoven's oldest friends, was a favourite of the ageing composer, who delighted in the boy's frequent visits. This firsthand account provides us with telling details about Beethoven's daily life, his personality, and his relationships with family and friends. It is as a clear-eyed witness of Beethoven's final illness that Breuning is particularly compelling, providing graphic reports on the atmosphere of the sickroom, the course of the medical treatment and Beethoven's death throes after he despaired both of his doctor and of his life and, muttering 'Oh, that ass!', turned his face to the wall. This is an English translation of a fascinating document. The Beethoven scholar, Maynard Solomon, has provided many explanatory notes as well as a full and informative introduction. A permanent contribution to the Beethoven literature, this book provides a sensitive and unique insight into the life of the composer during his later years.

Late Beethoven - Music, Thought, Imagination (Paperback, New Ed): Maynard Solomon Late Beethoven - Music, Thought, Imagination (Paperback, New Ed)
Maynard Solomon
R797 R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Save R113 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a series of powerful strokes, the music of BeethovenOCOs last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard SolomonOCOs "Late Beethoven" investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis in BeethovenOCOs system of beliefs that began early in his fifth decade and eventually amounted to a sweeping realignment of his views of nature, antiquity, divinity, and human purpose.Using the composerOCOs letters, diaries, and conversation books, Solomon traces BeethovenOCOs attraction to a constellation of heterogeneous ideas, drawn from Romanticism, Freemasonry, comparative religion, Eastern initiatory ritual, Mediterranean mythology, aesthetics, and classical and contemporary thought. Through these often arcane sources, Beethoven gained access to a vast reservoir of imagery and ideas with the potential to expand musicOCOs expressive and communicative reach. This multitude of productive images, writes Solomon, provided kindling for the blaze of his imagination."Late Beethoven" is a rich tapestry of original perspectives on BeethovenOCOs music. Solomon sees the Seventh Symphony as a deployment of the rhythms of antiquity in an effort to revalidate the premises of the Classical world; the Ninth as an essay on the prospects and limits of affirmative, monumental endings; and the Diabelli Variations as a doorway to the universe of metaphoric significances that attach to beginnings. In the Violin Sonata in G, op. 96, Solomon finds a restoration of the full range of pastoral experience that the ancient poets had known. In the Grosse Fuge he locates issues of fragmentation and reassembly, and he suggests that pivotal passages of the last sonatas evoke sacred states of being.These stimulating perspectives illuminate the inner world within which Beethoven dwelled during his last fifteen years and the ways in which his thought and music may be interrelated. Written in accessible and eloquent prose, and with numerous music examples, "Late Beethoven" is a serious contribution to understanding this miraculous quantum leap in BeethovenOCOs creative evolution."

Marxism and Art - Essays Classic and Contemporary (Paperback): Maynard Solomon Marxism and Art - Essays Classic and Contemporary (Paperback)
Maynard Solomon
R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marxism and Art is a book of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics. Maynard Solomon, through his selections and critical introductions, shows connections between the arts and society, between imagination nd history, and between art and revolution. He selects from thirty-six authors to reveal the range of opinion from dogma to heresy, beginning with excerpts from the works of Marx and Engels that are pertinent to an understanding of Marxist philosophy. The book traverses a wide range of subjects from the origins of art to the nature of creativity, the aesthetic experience, the dialectics of consciousness, the psychology of art, and the evolution of art forms. The sources of art in ritual, in the labor process, in the play drive, and in social conflict are explored.

Beethoven Essays (Paperback, New Ed): Maynard Solomon Beethoven Essays (Paperback, New Ed)
Maynard Solomon
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Maynard Solomon is the author of a classic biography of Beethoven which has become a standard work throughout the world, having been translated into seven languages. In Beethoven Essays, he continues his exploration of Beethoven's inner life, visionary outlook, and creativity, in a series of profound studies of this colossal figure of our civilization. Solomon deftly fuses a variety of investigative approaches, from rigorous historical and ideological studies to imaginative musical and psychoanalytic speculations. Thus, after closely documenting Beethoven's birth and illegitimacy fantasies, his "Family Romance," and his pretense of nobility, Solomon offers extraordinary interpretations of the composer's dreams, deafness, and obsessive relationship to his nephew. And, following his detailed uncovering of a complex network of recurrent patterns in the Ninth Symphony, he considers the narrative and mythic implications of Beethoven's formal design. Solomon examines the broad patterns of Beethoven's creative evolution and processes of composition, the radical modernism of his music, and his intellectual, religious, and utopian strivings. A separate section on the "Immortal Beloved" includes the fullest biography of Antonia Brentano yet published. Closing the volume is Solomon's translation and annotated edition of Beethoven's Tagebuch, the moving, intimate diary that the composer kept during the critical period that culminated in his last style. Here, as throughout Beethoven Essays, Solomon offers scholarship that is at the cutting edge of Beethoven research.

Tom Paxton - Best Of The Vanguard Years CD (2000) (CD): Tom Paxton Tom Paxton - Best Of The Vanguard Years CD (2000) (CD)
Tom Paxton; Contributions by Jeff Zaraya; Produced by Tom Vickers, Jeff Zaraya, Maynard Solomon, …
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Out of stock
Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina (Bonus Tracks) CD (2002) (CD): Joan Baez Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina (Bonus Tracks) CD (2002) (CD)
Joan Baez; Produced by Maynard Solomon
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Out of stock
Various Artists - Joan Baez Plus Joan Baez, Vol. 2 & in Concert (CD): Mark Spector, Maynard Solomon, Arthur Levy Various Artists - Joan Baez Plus Joan Baez, Vol. 2 & in Concert (CD)
Mark Spector, Maynard Solomon, Arthur Levy; Performed by Joan Baez
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Out of stock
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