During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life.
Con il catalogo I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800, pubblicata dal 1990 al 1994 da Bertola & Locatelli a Cuneo, Claudio Sartori ha donato alla ricerca sulla storia dell'opera e dell'oratorio una base completamente nuova.
Bold new essays demonstrate how Leonard Bernstein influenced American culture, society, and politics through his conducting, composing, political relationships, and activism.
An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Joe Davis (1896-1978), the focus of The Melody Man, enjoyed a fifty-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business.
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers.
'Von Grafen und Predigern' – unter dieser Überschrift vereinigt der Band die Vorträge zweier Tagungen, die in den Jahren 2010 und 2011 in Eisleben und Mansfeld durchgeführt wurden.
An NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music CriticismThis is the best book about the Beatles ever written Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.
Der Name des berühmten Wiener Klarinettisten Anton Paul Stadler (1753-1812) ist den meisten Musikliebhabern im Kontext mit Mozarts singulären Klarinettenwerken geläufig.
A devout Catholic, a visionary-and some say prophetic-writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture.
From the bestselling author of Blood and Money: A haunting true story of three people locked in a fierce struggle against time and the sea—and each other.
Der Band enthält die Beiträge der zwölften Begegnung im bilateralen Theologischen Dialog zwischen der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland und der Rumänischen Orthodoxen Kirche vom März 2010 in Sambata de Sus und der dreizehnten Begegnung vom März 2013 in Drübeck/Sachsen-Anhalt.
All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Gubaidulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process.
Die Gemeinschaften innerhalb des Gnadauer Verbandes werden seit den 1970er-Jahren zunehmend "Gemeinden"; sie gehen den Weg zu mehr struktureller Eigenständigkeit, der in diesem Buch in praktisch-theologischer Perspektive analysiert und erörtert wird.
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award WinnerInterpretive and biographical essays by a major authority on Bach and Mozart probe for clues to the driving forces and experiences that shaped the character and the extraordinary artistic achievements of these iconic composers.
Schablonen wie ›österreichischer Palestrina‹, ›trockener Kontrapunktiker‹ und ›Lehrmeister im strengen Satz‹ haben das Profil des kaiserlichen Hofkapellmeisters Johann Joseph Fux (?
Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life.