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Concerto
About: Concerto is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1231 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4731 citations. The topic is also known as: Concert.
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1 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740-1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music is presented.
Abstract: This volume continues the study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740-1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music. It tells of events in Naples, where Vinci and Pergolesi went beyond their pre-1720 models to cultivate opera in a simpler, more direct manner, soon after christened the galant style. No less central was Venice, where Vivaldi perfected the concerto, on which were patterned the early symphonies and the newer kind of sonata. Dresden profited first from all these achievements and became, under Hasse's direction, the foremost center of Italian opera in Germany. Mannheim with its great orchestra did much to shape the modern symphony. A few years later, Paris became paramount, especially for its Opera-Comique; during the 1770s the Opera provided Gluck with a stage on which to cap his long international career. The book concludes with a description of Christian Bach in London, Paisiello in Saint Petersburg, and Boccherini in Madrid. This long-awaited book offers a view of eighteenth-century music that is broad and innovative while remaining sensitive to the values of those times and places. One comes away from it with an understanding of the European context behind the triumphs of Haydn and Mozart. Lavishly illustrated with music examples and reproductions, both in black-and-white and color, this master study will be of inestimable importance to scholars, cultural historians, performers, and all music lovers.
169 citations
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1 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, Daverio argues that Schumann's entire creative life was guided by the desire to imbue music with the intellectual substance of literature, revealing the depth of his literary sensibility.
Abstract: Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Among many works, his Spring Symphony (1841), Piano Concerto in A Minor (1841/1845), and the Third, or Rhenish, Symphony (1850) exemplify his infusion of classical forms with intense, personal emotion. His musical influence continues today and has inspired many other famous composers in the century since his death. Indeed Brahms, in a letter of January 1873, wrote: 'The remembrance of Schumann is sacred to me. I will always take this noble pure artist as my model'. Now, in Robert Schumann: Herald of a 'New Poetic Age', John Daverio presents the first comprehensive study of the composer's life and works to appear in nearly a century. Long regarded as a quintessentially romantic figure, Schumann also has been portrayed as a profoundly tragic one: a composer who began his career as a genius and ended it as a mere talent. Daverio takes issue with this Schumann myth, arguing instead that the composer's entire creative life was guided by the desire to imbue music with the intellectual substance of literature. A close analysis of the interdependence among Schumann's activities as reader, diarist, critic, and musician reveals the depth of his literary sensibility. Drawing on documents only recently brought to light, the author also provides a fresh outlook on the relationship between Schumann's mental illness - which brought on an extended sanitarium stay and eventual death in 1856 - and his musical creativity. Schumann's character as man and artist thus emerges in all its complexity. The book concludes with an analysis of the late works and a postlude on Schumann's influence on successors from Brahms to Berg. This well-researched study of Schumann interprets the composer's creative legacy in the context of his life and times, combining nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual history with a fascinating analysis of the works themselves.
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27 May 1999
TL;DR: Brahms and his audience: the later Viennese years, 1875-1897 Leon Botstein Part II. Brahms Today: Some Personal Responses: 10. Conducting Brahms Roger Norrington with Michael Musgrave 11. The editor's Brahms Robert Pascall 12.
Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Chronology Preface Part I. Stages of Creative Development and Reception: 1. Brahms the Hamburg musician 1833-1862 Kurt Hofmann 2. Years of transition: Brahms and Vienna 1862-1875 Michael Musgrave 3. Brahms and his audience: the later Viennese years, 1875-1897 Leon Botstein Part II. The Music: Genre, Structure and Reference: 4. Opposition and integration in the piano music John Rink 5. Medium and meaning: new aspects of the chamber music David Brodbeck 6. Formal perspectives on the symphonies Kofi Agawu 7. 'Veiled symphonies'? The concertos Malcolm MacDonald 8. The scope and significance of the choral music Daniel Beller-McKenna 9. Words for music: the songs for solo voice and piano Michael Musgrave Part III. Brahms Today: Some Personal Responses: 10. Conducting Brahms Roger Norrington with Michael Musgrave 11. The editor's Brahms Robert Pascall 12. A photograph of Brahms Hugh Wood Notes List of works Bibliography Index.
129 citations
TL;DR: A concert pianist recorded her practice as she learned the Italian Concerto (Presto) by J. S. Bach for performance, commenting on what she was doing as she practised as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A concert pianist recorded her practice as she learned the Italian Concerto (Presto) by J. S. Bach for performance, commenting on what she was doing as she practised. After the performance the pian...
127 citations
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