Hans Von Bülow: A Life and Times (PDF)

Hans Von Bülow: A Life and Times, by Alan Walker
Oxford University Press, USA | December 4, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0195368681 | 544 pages | PDF | 6.97 mb

In Hans von Bülow: A Life and Times, Alan Walker, the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning books on the era's iconic composers, provides the first full-length English biography of this remarkable musical figure. Walker traces Bülow's life in illuminating and engaging detail, from the first piano lessons of his boyhood days, to his first American tour, to his last days as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Unearthing Bülow's extensive and previously unavailable correspondence and writings, Walker conveys amusing and informative anecdotes about this unique musical legend- from his sardonic and clever personality to his meticulous devotion to his work-and reveals enlightening insights on the still-contested sensibilities of musical-compositional style and "idea" at play in the vibrant musical world of which Bülowwas a part.



Contents
Illustrations xiii
The Bülow Chronicles xvii
Bülow’s Family Tree xxvi
Prologue
From Alpha to Omega 3
Bülow’s Family Background 21
Book One: On the Slopes of Parnassus, 1830–1869
The Early Years 31
With Liszt in Weimar 49
The Growing Virtuoso, 1853–1855 69
Berlin, 1855–1864 I: A City of Mingled Chimes 83
Berlin, 1855–1864 II: Marriage to Cosima 95
Catastrophe in Munich, 1864–1869 115
Book Two: Ascending the Peak, 1870–1880
Bülow in Florence 163
First Tours of Britain—and Beyond, 1873–1875 181
The First Tour of America, 1875–1876 211
A Scottish Interlude, 1877–1878 237
At Hanover, 1877–1879 247
Britannia Scorned, 1878–1879: Encounters and Skirmishes
in ‘The Land without Music’ 263
Book Three: Vistas from the Summit, 1880–1894
The Meiningen Years, 1880–1885 I: The Meiningen Miracle 277
The Meiningen Years, 1880–1885 II: Enter Marie Schanzer 295
The Meiningen Years, 1880–1885 III: Paths of Glory 311
Bülow the Pedagogue: The Frankfurt Masterclasses, 1884–1887 333
A New Home in Hamburg, 1886 353
The Berlin Philharmonic, 1887–1892 I: The Eagle’s Wings 373
Return to America, 1889–1890 399
The Berlin Philharmonic, 1887–1892: II: ‘Glory, Honour,
and Good Fortune’ 419
The Last Days and Death of Bülow, 1893–1894 441
Appendix I: Bülow’s Autopsy Report 465
Appendix II: Complete Catalogue of Bülow’s Compositions,
Transcriptions, and Editions 469
Appendix III: Bülow’s Titles and Honours 483
List of Sources 485
Index 493



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Gustav Mahler: Lieder-Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - ( 2011)

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Al empezar el año de las conmemoraciones Mahlerianas, el sello Deutsche Grammophon ha lanzado en su colección The Originals una edición remasterizada de los Lieder de Mahler, que recupera tres grabaciones que viven en la leyenda. Se trata de los registros que hiciera Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau:

• En 1959 de los Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen con Rafael Kubelik dirigiendo a la Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

• En 1963 de los Kindertotenlieder y de los Ruckert-Lieder, con la Berliner Philharmonikerm dirigida por Karl Bohmm, y

• En 1968 los Ruckert-Lieder [14-18], acompañado al piano por Karl Engel.

Como es bien conocido Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau realizo muy tempranamente registros de las canciones de Mahler, destacado las realizadas con el gigantesco maestro Furtwängler. Pero, entre las numerosas grabaciones, las aqui recogidas destacan por lo avanzado de la tecnología con la que fueron producidas, y porque lograron una circulación continua que las hizo piezas de culto.



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Mahler Symphony No 9, Esa-Pekka Salonen (2010)

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Esa-Pekka Salonen nos entrega una Novena Sinfonía de Mahler que es particularmente clara y radiante, una muestra de cómo suena Mahler, al acercarse el centenario de su nacimiento, en la batuta de los nuevos conductores Mahleritas.
La grabación realizada con la Philharmonia Orchestra para el sello Signum UK, es un registro en vivo, pues Salonen afirma que la novena es una sinfonía acerca de la muerte y que su sentido debe ser el del no retorno.

Salonen lets the melodies and harmonies radiate the warmth and wisdom of the composer by doing away with such excesses as heavy orchestration and/or slower tempos. This complex symphony is stated fluently, clearly and elegantly by Salonen. I predict that this recording will win Mahler many new fans.Amazon

Esa-Pekka Salonen on the disc: “Our new recording of the piece is a live recording, of a performance we gave after we had played the piece on tour in places such as the Concertgebouw and Cologne. I very much like the idea of recording this piece live. In fact, the idea of recording that finale in a studio doesn’t feel right. So many of the most celebrated recordings of the piece – Bernstein, Karajan, Bruno Walter in 1938 – have been concert recordings. It’s no accident. This is about death and there must be a sense of no return. It’s your only shot. You just do it and live with the results. This is real life and death, not a video game.”

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Mozart: The ' Haydn' Quartets, by John Irving (PDF)

Mozart: The Haydn Quartets, by John Irving Cambridge University Press | January 28, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0521584752 | 116 pages | PDF | 1.03 MB

This book is a guide to Mozart's six most famous string quartets, dedicated to his friend, Joseph Haydn. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of these six pieces and charts their reception through a broad range of sources: letters and diary entries, contemporary criticism and early biographies.

Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 Mozart’s Early Quartets 5
2 Genesis of the ‘Haydn’ Quartets 12
The Autograph 14
Textual Revisions 15
3 Steps to Publication 19
4 The Individual Quartets: A Synopsis 25
K.387 in G 26
K.421 in D Minor 33
K.458 in B Flat 37
K.428 in E Flat 44
K.464 in A 49
K.465 in C 54
5 Some Theoretical Perspectives 61
Rhetorical Approaches 61
Topicality in the First Movement of K.458 68
6 Reception of the ‘Haydn’ Quartets 73
Early Editions and Copies 73
Early Critical Reactions 74
Early Nineteenth-Century ‘Narrativity’ 75
Fétis and the Adagio of K.465 76
Twentieth-century approaches 78
Appendix: Mozart’s Dedication Page (1785) 85
Notes 86
Select bibliography 99
Index 104


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J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales (PDF)

J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
Oxford University Press | February 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0195116666 | 192 pages | PDF | 11.34 MB

On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an in-depth look at the "Great Eighteen" organ chorales, among the most celebrated works for organ, and a milestone in the history of the chorale. Addressed to organists, scholars, and general listeners alike, this lucid and engaging book examines the music from a wide spectrum of historical and analytical perspectives.


CONTENTS
Abbreviations xiii
1: COMPOSITIONAL MODELS AND MUSICAL STYLE 3
The Chorale Motet 4
The Chorale Parlila 6
The Ornamental Chorale 8
The Cantus Firrnus Chorale \ 6
The Chorale Trio 20
2: THE GENESIS OF THE COLLECTION 29
The Autograph Manuscript 30
Compositional Process 38
3: S I G N I F I C A N C E 55
Function and Purpose 56
The Structure of the Collection 63
4: THE M U S I C AND ITS PERFORMANCE 75
"Komm, Heiliger Geist, Hern; Goll"
(Come, holy Ghost, Lord Cod), BWV 651 75
"Komm, Heiliger Geisl, Ilerre Colt"
(Come, Holy Ghost, Lord God), BWV652 76
"An Wasserflussen Babylon"
(By the Waters of Babylon), B WV 653 78
"Schmucke dick, o liebe Seele"
(Adorn Yourself, 0 Dear Soul), BWV654 80
"Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend"
(Lord Jesus Christ, Turn to Us), BWV 655 82
"0 Lamm Gottes, unschuldig"
(0 Lamb of God, Innocently Slaughtered), BWV 656 83
"Nun danket alls Gott"
(Lei Everyone Now Thank God), BWV 657 85
"Von Gott will ich nicht lassen"
(From God 1 Do Not Want to Leave), BWV 658 85
"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
(Come Now, Savior of the Heathen), BWV 659 87
"Nun komm,, der Heiden Heiland"
(Come Now, Savior of the Heathen), BWV 660 89
"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
(Come Now, Savior of the Heathen), BWV 661 95
"Allein Golt in der Hoh sei Ehr"
(Alone to God on High Be Honor), BWV 662 96
"Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr"
(Alone to God on High Be Honor), BWV 663 97
"Allein Golt in der Hoh sei Ehr"
(Alone to God on High Be Honor), BWV 664 100
"Jesus Christus, unser Heiland"
(Jesus Christ, Our Savior), BWV665 JOI
"Jesus Christus, unser Heiland"
(Jesus Christ, Our Savior), BWV 666 102
"Komm, Gott Schiipfer, Heiliger Geist"
(Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost), BWV 667 103
"Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit"
(Before Your Throne 1 Now Appear), B WV 668 104
5: RECEPTION HISTORY 107
The Eighteenth Century 108
The Nineteenth Century 113
The Twentieth Century 127
Notes 133
Bibliography 149
Index 165

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Bach Cantatas, Vol. 11-John Eliot Gardiner (2010)

Free download. Descarga gratuita. En esta entrega compartimos el volumen 11, del ciclo "Peregrinación" que John Eliot Gardiner dirigió y grabo en un sello de marca propia, y que reune completas las cantatas sacras de J. S. Bach.
Como bien saben, quienes han acompañado esta magna edición, los volúmenes 11, 12 y 27, fueron los últimos en salir a circulación.Aquí compartimos recientemente el volumen 27, y en una próxima entrega podrán uds. encontrar en este espacio disponible el vol.12.
El sello editorial es SDG - Soli Deo Gloria, la dirección musical de John Eliot Gardiner, y el sonido de The Monteverdi Choir y The English Baroque Soloists.

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Puccini: His Life and Works, by Julian Budden (PDF)

Puccini: His Life and Works, by Julian Budden
Oxford University Press | 552 pages | English | 2002 | ISBN: 0198164688 | PDF | 2,1 MB

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) stood at the end of fivegenerations of composers. A generous man who helped others when theyneeded a boost, he loved motorcars and boats for excitement butretreated to his beloved Tuscany's lakes to escape urban hubbub. Muchto his jealous wife Elvira's distress, he had many paramours andconfidantes. His sense of drama drove him to demand perfection fromhis librettists. With his third opera, Manon Lescaut, heestablished himself as a leading composer for the stage. GiulioRicordi, scion of the music-publishing house, was impresario forproductions of his operas, and Toscanini conducted most of theirpremiers. Budden, president of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini in thecomposer's ancestral hometown, Lucca, Italy, looks closely atPuccini's music per se. He highlights events in the life but leavesout much in the way of conflict and incident, instead covering theoperas' scenarios and music in detail. Because Puccini also wrotepieces for orchestra, band, piano, and chorus, Budden analyzes some ofthose as well. Puccini's operatic music embraces the use of leitmotifsand some of the harmonies that Wagner pioneered, and it demonstrateshis ability to match dramatic and musical structures. His feeling forthe stage picture is fundamental to his art, and the variety ofmusical shades he exploited with the orchestra served the pictures hesought to realize.

Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments viii
Key to Sigla ix
1 Early Life at Lucca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1
2 The Student at Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 Le Villi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4 Edgar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5 Manon Lescaut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 87
6 La bohème . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
7 Tosca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
8 Madama Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 223
9 La fanciulla del West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
10 La rondine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
11 Il trittico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
12 Turandot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
13 Puccini as Man and Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 474
Appendices
A Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
B List of Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
C Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
D Select Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Index 519



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Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance (PDF)

Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance, By Amanda Glaubert
Cambridge University Press | January 28, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0521496373 | 170 pages | PDF | 5.46 MB

In spite of growing interest in the songs of Hugo Wolf, there is still a lack of serious critical discussion of the nature of his achievements. This book offers an in-depth study of his music, including detailed analyses of selected songs. Perspectives from musical analysis and history are brought together to show how this composer and late-nineteenth-century song have a far more significant role in helping us to understand Wagner's musical and aesthetic influence than has yet been realized.


Contents
Acknowledgements page vii
Introduction 1
1 'Music of the future' ? The nature of the Wagnerian inheritance 4
2 'Wagner of the Lied' ? Wolf as critic of Wagner and Wagnerism 15
3 Small things can also enchant us - Wolf's challenge to nineteenthcentury
views of song 3 2
4 'Poetry the man, music the woman'? Wolf's reworking in his Morike
songs of Wagner's aesthetics of words and music 48
5 The integrity of musical language - questions of form and meaning
in Wolf's Goethe songs 79
6 The Wolfian perspective - comparisons with the songs of Strauss and
Mahler 117
Notes 150
Bibliography 157
Index 160

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Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony, by James Webster (PDF)

Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style, by James Webster
Cambridge University Press | English | November 11, 2004 | ISBN: 0521612012 | 424 pages | PDF | 15,4 MB

Haydn is something of an oddball when it comes to reception history. In the popular conscience he is far less known than his peers Mozart and Beethoven, though a case could be made that he has been more important than either for the development of classical music. One of the chief reasons for this is the 19th century's misappropriation of Haydn's æsthetic ideals, reflecting the values of his contemporary society more than his younger colleagues mentioned over.

Webster, however, singles out one element he believes have been especially neglected in Haydn: through-composition and programmatic elements. These are traits where Beethoven historically has been given an undue amount of credit. Webster proves, beyond a doubt, that these elements can be found within Haydn's works, and that Beethoven very well could have learned of them during his lessons with Haydn. Webster's pedagogical vehicle is Haydn's 45th symphony, the "Farewell". Webster first sets out to show, using Schoenberg's concept of "developing variations" (and, in the process, creating what is perhaps the best essay the concept save Walter Frisch's "Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variations"), that the motivic content of the movements are all interrelated. Complementing with Schenkerian analyses Webster shows that the symphony in actuality consists of "cycles", and only the final actually provides closure. His notion that the strange episode introduced in the first movement is only recapitulated in the finale.


CONTENTS
Foreword by Ian Bent page xiii
Preface xv
Author's note xviii
List of abbreviations xix
Introduction 1
The origins of the Farewell Symphony 1
Analysis and interpretation 3
Through-composition in Haydn's music 6
Haydn and "Classical style" 9
PART I: THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY
1 The construction of the whole 13
A through-composed symphony 13
Major/minor equivalence and remote third-relations 17
Developing variation 20
2 Instability 30
Allegro assai 30
Adagio: motivic transformation and expressive melody 57
Minuet and trio: ambiguity 64
A promise of resolution 71
3 Resolution 73
The form of the double finale 73
Motivic liquidation, background structure, and closure 82
An apotheosis of ethereality 110
4 The program 113
Reception 113
An interpretation 116
PART II: CYCLIC ORGANIZATION IN HAYDN'S INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
5 Progressive form and the rhetoric of instability 123
Gesture and rhetoric 123
Destabilization 127
Through-composition 155
Symphonies Nos. 80 and 92, first movements 167
6 Integration of the cycle 174
The background of genre 176
Cyclic form? 179
Run-on movement pairs and compound movements 186
Thematicism 194
Tonal organization 204
7 Extramusical associations 225
Austrian instrumental music in Haydn's time 225
Extramusicality in Haydn's aesthetics 227
Haydn's extramusical symphonies 236
Implications 247
8 Individual compositions 250
Two early symphonies: cyclic patterns and thematic links 251
Two expressive symphonies, c. 1770 259
Symphony No. 49 in F minor: monotonality 259
Symphony No. 46 in B: the meaning of musical reminiscence 267
Sonata No. 30 in A: the limits of through-composition 288
Two C major quartets: the finale as culmination 294
Op. 20 No. 2 and the "problem" of the fugal finale 294
Op. 54 No. 2 and the dialectic of listeners' expectations 300
Two masterworks of 1793 314
Op. 74 No. 3: minor into major 314
Symphony No. 99 and remote third relations 320
The dialectic of "type" and uniqueness 329
Historiographical conclusion: Haydn's maturity and "Classical style" 335
Rosen's criticism 335
Sandberger's tale 341
"Classical style" 347
"Maturity" 357
The Farewell Symphony, through-composition, and Beethoven 366
Bibliography 375
Index


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Bach Cantatas, Vol. 18 - John Eliot Gardiner. Last volume of the Bach`s Cantata Pilgrimage

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La peregrinación ha terminado.
Con esta caja de 2 CD´s concluye el monumental proyecto dirigido por John Eliot Gardiner en que ha grabado completas las Cantatas Sacras de J.S. Bach, recurriendo a presentaciones en vivo, programadas en los lugares y fechas para las que fueron escritas.
La peregrinación se prolongo por un año, y fue un recorrido musical por las iglesias más hermosas y tradicionales de Europa, que concluyo en las navidades del milenio con tres conciertos en New York.
Este registro que es la entrega no.27, y que corresponde a la caja no.18, reúne las Cantatas dedicadas al día de Navidad, La fiesta de la Epifanía y el primer domingo de epifanía. El sonido, como en todo el proyecto, es de English Baroque Soloists, y The Monteverdi Choir.

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