Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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In Paris and Dresden
Author: Richard WagnerIn Paris and Dresden
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Fred Stein
Author: Erika EschebachPublisher:
ISBN: 9783954983650
Category : Black-and-white photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The people he photographed are famous, and famous are his portraits and cityscapes. The name of the photographer, however, is little known so far. Fred Stein is one of the pioneers of small-format photography of the 1930s and 1940s. The oeuvre of the man who only became a photographer by happenstance is a moving and dynamic testimony of 20th-century history. Stein created impressive pictures of cities and people. Born in Dresden in 1909 as the son of a rabbi, he became a stalwart socialist and was forced to leave his home town when the National Socialists came to power. Together with his wife Lilo, he fled to Paris on the pretext of a honeymoon in 1933. An aspiring lawyer, Stein then needed to follow a new career path-for which the wedding gift of a Leica 35mm camera turned out to be the key. The hardships of flight and emigration revealed his outstanding talent as a sensitive portrait and street photographer. First in Paris and then, after 1941, in his New York exile, Fred Stein on his forays through the city became an "ethnologist of the urban space", his eye always out for special moments and the poetry of the metropolis. A silent observer, his pictures would capture typical scenes and places, as well as the special quality of life in the city. In a similar way, his portraits testify to the unobtrusive proximity in his relationship with people. The list of those portrayed reads like a Who's Who of 20th-century history: Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Willy Brandt, Arnold Zweig, Egon Erwin Kisch, Bertold Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dali, Martin Buber, Thomas Mann. His photographs are characterized by a profound humanity and a subtle sense of humor. As a humanist intellectual, he photographed more than just the perfect moment and never lost sight of the overall picture. In his picture stories Stein proves a masterful photographer of modernity, with a view full of empathy for his environment and his fellow human beings. This catalog shows a high quality selection of Fred Stein's most important photographs and at the same time provides an illustrated biography of the artist's life. It was written and selected in close cooperation with Fred's son, Peter Stein, who administers his father's oeuvre. Bilingual edition, English and German text.
Richard Wagner's Prose Works: In Paris and Dresden
Author: Richard WagnerRichard Wagner in Paris
Author: Jeremy ColemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781783274420
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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How did Wagner's experiences in Paris influence his works and social character? And how does his sometime desire for recognition by the French cultural establishment square with his German national identity and with the related idea of a universally valid art? Friedrich Nietzsche more than once claimed that Wagner's only true home was in Paris. This book is the first major study to trace Wagner's relationship with Paris from his first sojourn there (1839-1842) to the Paris Tannhäuser (1861). How did Wagner's experiences in Paris influence his works and social character? How does his sometime desire for recognition by the French cultural establishment square with his German national identity and with the related idea of a universally valid art? This book presents Wagner's perennial ambition of an international operatic success in the "capital city of the nineteenth century" and the paradoxical consequences of that ambition upon its failure. Through an examination of previously neglected source materials, the book engages with ideas in the so-called "Wagner debate" as an ongoing philosophical project that tries to come to terms with the composer's Germanness. The book is in three main parts arranged broadly in chronological sequence. The first considers Wagner's earliest years in Paris, focusing on his own French-language drafts of Das Liebesverbot and Der fliegende Holländer. The second part explores his stance towards Paris "at a distance" following his return to Saxony and subsequent political exile. Arriving at Wagner's most often discussed "Paris period" (1859-61), the third part interrogates the concert performances under the composer's direction at the Théâtre-Italien and revisionist aspects of their reception. JEREMY COLEMAN is Lecturer in Music in the School of Performing Arts, Universityof Malta.
Prose Works: In Paris and Dresden
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Paris: Famous Historical Residences
Author: Marques VickersPublisher: Marquis Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Consider this edition your personal Parisian address directory for the renowned that have historically shaped France and the world. This illustrated guide transports you geographically and photographically to famous residences formerly occupied by historical leaders, noteworthy figures, revolutionaries, famous writers, performers, composers and visual artists. It is your map of the stars within Paris with profiles framing the unique impact and background of the occupants. Known and unknown history, hidden delights and fascinating stories pervade the history of Paris. This kaleidoscope of discovery, personalities, egos, scandals, conflict framed by sheer beauty creates a vivid tapestry defining over two millenniums. You may imagine that you already know Paris, but that view is solely a prism of the whole. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. This Famous Historic Guide is your alternative to conventional travel. It accommodates the restless visitor, tourist and resident seeking a unique and different perspective to traditional tourism. Paris remains one of the most beguiling, seductive and enchanting cities of the world. Its famed personalities are as statuesque and substantial as its iconic monuments. HISTORICAL FIGURES: Joan of Ark, Nicholas Flamel, Diane de Poitiers, Queen Margot of Navarre, Cardinal Richelieu, Marquises of Montespan and Maintenon, Madame du Barry, Benjamin Franklin, Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, Jacques Necker, Marie Le Normand, Eugene Vidocoq, Duke de Praslin, Napoleon III, La Paiva, Otto von Bismarck, Madame Claude, George Boulanger, Coco Chanel, Francois Mitterrand, Charles Parnell, Jacques Verges. John Adams, Karl Lagerfeld and Samuel de Champlain. BONAPARTE ERA: Napoleon Bonaparte, Desiree Clary, Empress Josephine, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, James Monroe, Pauline Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington. THINKERS/PHILOSOPHERS/WRITERS: Rene Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Marquis de Sade, Thomas Paine, Andre Chenier, Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Sylvia Beach, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Rambeau, Blaise Pascal, Charles Baudelaire, Theophile Gautier, Duke of Saint Simon, Ernest Hemingway, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Ezra Pound, Francoise Sagan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Sand, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Flaubert, Heinrich Heine, Ivan Turguenev, James Baldwin, James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, Marcel Proust, Stendhal and PERFORMANCE ARTS: Moliere, Pierre Beaumarchais, Gioachino Rossini, Frederick Chopin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Jacques Offenbach, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bizet, Jean Sibelius, Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, Jacques Tati, Brigitte Bardot, Francois Truffaut, Jeanne Moreau, Serge Gainsbourg, George Moustaki, Dalida, Alain Delon and Jim Morrison, VISUAL ARTS: Jacques-Louis David, Auguste Rodin, Theo van Gough, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonse Mucha, Amedeo Modigliani, Andre Masson, Constantin Brancusi, Camille Claudel, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Claude Monet, Francis Bacon, Gustave Dore, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Honore Daumier, Jean Renoir, Joan Miro, Kiki de Montparnasse, Man Ray, Yves Klein, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Gauguin, REVOLUTIONARIES: Count Mirabeau, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Maximilien Robespierre, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Ho Chi Minh and Jean-Paul Marat.
An Englishman in Paris; Volume I
Author: Albert Dresden VandamPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021982315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Journey back in time to the Paris of the late 19th century with An Englishman in Paris. Written by Albert Dresden Vandam, this fascinating memoir offers a unique perspective on the City of Light during a time of great social and cultural change. Experience the city's vibrant nightlife, meet the artists and writers who flocked to Paris, and discover the secrets of this beautiful and mysterious city. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Chopin in Paris
Author: Tad SzulcPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684867389
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Chopin in Paris introduces the most important musical and literary figures of Fryderyk Chopin's day in a glittering story of the Romantic era. During Chopin's eighteen years in Paris, lasting nearly half his short life, he shone at the center of the immensely talented artists who were defining their time -- Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, Liszt, Berlioz, and, of course, George Sand, a rebel feminist writer who became Chopin's lover and protector. Tad Szulc, the author of Fidel and Pope John Paul II, approaches his subject with imagination and insight, drawing extensively on diaries, memoirs, correspondence, and the composer's own journal, portions of which appear here for the first time in English. He uses contemporary sources to chronicle Chopin's meteoric rise in his native Poland, an ascent that had brought him to play before the reigning Russian grand duke at the age of eight. He left his homeland when he was eighteen, just before Warsaw's patriotic uprising was crushed by the tsar's armies. Carrying the memories of Poland and its folk music that would later surface in his polonaises and mazurkas, Chopin traveled to Vienna. There he established his reputation in the most demanding city of Europe. But Chopin soon left for Paris, where his extraordinary creative powers would come to fruition amid the revolutions roiling much of Europe. He quickly gained fame and a circle of powerful friends and acquaintances ranging from Rothschild, the banker, to Karl Marx. Distinguished by his fastidious dress and the wracking cough that would cut short his life, Chopin spent his days composing and giving piano lessons to a select group of students. His evenings were spent at the keyboard, playing for his friends. It was at one of these Chopin gatherings that he met George Sand, nine years his senior. Through their long and often stormy relationship, Chopin enjoyed his richest creative period. As she wrote dozens of novels, he composed furiously -- both were compulsive creators. After their affair unraveled, Chopin became the protégé of Jane Stirling, a wealthy Scotswoman, who paraded him in his final year across England and Scotland to play for the aristocracy and even Queen Victoria. In 1849, at the age of thirty-nine, Chopin succumbed to the tuberculosis that had plagued him from childhood. Chopin in Paris is an illuminating biography of a tragic figure who was one of the most important composers of all time. Szulc brings to life the complex, contradictory genius whose works will live forever. It is compelling reading about an exciting epoch of European history, culture, and music -- and about one of the great love dramas of the nineteenth century.
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: J. A. Fuller MaitlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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