Author:
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN: 1574671154
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
(Amadeus). Music lovers will delight in the beautiful color paintings and eloquent prose portraits in The Steinway Collection: Paintings of Great Composers. Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Handel, and Schubert are among the composers celebrated in this historic book, which was originally printed in 1919 as an in-house publication of Steinway & Sons but has never before been released to the public. The paintings by esteemed American artists and accompanying essays by the brilliant critic James Gibbons Huneker are intended, in Mr. Huneker's words, to "evoke musical visions; for music is visionary, notwithstanding its primal appeal to the ear." An introduction by acclaimed broadcaster and writer David Dubal, Juilliard professor of piano literature, gives the book historical perspective.
The Steinway Collection
Author:
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN: 1574671154
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
(Amadeus). Music lovers will delight in the beautiful color paintings and eloquent prose portraits in The Steinway Collection: Paintings of Great Composers. Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Handel, and Schubert are among the composers celebrated in this historic book, which was originally printed in 1919 as an in-house publication of Steinway & Sons but has never before been released to the public. The paintings by esteemed American artists and accompanying essays by the brilliant critic James Gibbons Huneker are intended, in Mr. Huneker's words, to "evoke musical visions; for music is visionary, notwithstanding its primal appeal to the ear." An introduction by acclaimed broadcaster and writer David Dubal, Juilliard professor of piano literature, gives the book historical perspective.
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN: 1574671154
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
(Amadeus). Music lovers will delight in the beautiful color paintings and eloquent prose portraits in The Steinway Collection: Paintings of Great Composers. Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Handel, and Schubert are among the composers celebrated in this historic book, which was originally printed in 1919 as an in-house publication of Steinway & Sons but has never before been released to the public. The paintings by esteemed American artists and accompanying essays by the brilliant critic James Gibbons Huneker are intended, in Mr. Huneker's words, to "evoke musical visions; for music is visionary, notwithstanding its primal appeal to the ear." An introduction by acclaimed broadcaster and writer David Dubal, Juilliard professor of piano literature, gives the book historical perspective.
Egoists, a Book of Supermen
Author: James Huneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Book of Prefaces
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Chopin's Prophet
Author: Edward Blickstein
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810884976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind, whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the “Chopinzee”), would by the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his pianistic legacy. In Chopin’s Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann, the first biography ever of this remarkable figure, Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko explore the private and public lives of this master pianist, surveying his achievements within the context of contemporary critical opinion and preserving his legacy as one of the last great Romantic pianists of his time. Chopin’s Prophet paints a colorful portrait of classical piano performance and celebrity at the turn of the 20th century while also documenting Pachmann’s attraction to men, which ultimately ended his marriage but was overlooked by his audiences. As the authors illustrate, Pachmann lived in a radically different world of music making, one in which eccentric personality and behavior fit into a much more flexible, and sometimes mysterious, musical community, one where standards were set not by certified experts with degrees but by the musicians themselves. Detailing the evolution of concert piano playing style from the era of Chopin until World War I, Chopin’s Prophet tells the fantastic and true story of an artist of and after his time.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810884976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind, whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the “Chopinzee”), would by the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his pianistic legacy. In Chopin’s Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann, the first biography ever of this remarkable figure, Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko explore the private and public lives of this master pianist, surveying his achievements within the context of contemporary critical opinion and preserving his legacy as one of the last great Romantic pianists of his time. Chopin’s Prophet paints a colorful portrait of classical piano performance and celebrity at the turn of the 20th century while also documenting Pachmann’s attraction to men, which ultimately ended his marriage but was overlooked by his audiences. As the authors illustrate, Pachmann lived in a radically different world of music making, one in which eccentric personality and behavior fit into a much more flexible, and sometimes mysterious, musical community, one where standards were set not by certified experts with degrees but by the musicians themselves. Detailing the evolution of concert piano playing style from the era of Chopin until World War I, Chopin’s Prophet tells the fantastic and true story of an artist of and after his time.
Letters of James Gibbons Huneker
Author: James Huneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A collection of letters from 1886 to 1921 written to and from the author, excluding articles written by his closest friends.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A collection of letters from 1886 to 1921 written to and from the author, excluding articles written by his closest friends.
James Gibbons Huneker
Author: Arnold T. Schwab
Publisher: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Litterateurs
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A biography of James Huneker, an American art, book, music, theater critic and author.
Publisher: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Litterateurs
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A biography of James Huneker, an American art, book, music, theater critic and author.
A Baedeker of Decadence
Author: George C. Schoolfield
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300047142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300047142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.
Cloak
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher: [London] : G. Ricordi
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher: [London] : G. Ricordi
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 50
Book Description
Intimate Letters of James Gibbons Huneker
Author: James Huneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Letters of James Gibbons Huneker
Author: James Huneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music critics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music critics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description