Experiencing the violin concerto : a listener's companion / Franco Sciannameo.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Listener's companionPublisher: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016Description: xviii, 185 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780810888852
  • 0810888858
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML 1263 .S53 2016
Contents:
In the Baroque : Vivaldi's Four seasons and Bach's four keyboards -- Mozart-Haydn-Brunetti-Tomasini -- Viotti and Beethoven -- The meteoric Paganini and his epigones -- At the heart of German Romanticism : Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Bruch -- Brahms's Violin concerto and the end of an era -- In the after-Brahms : monsters and leprechauns -- Pillars of Modernism : Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Bart�ok -- Barber and Korngold, Shostakovich and... Schoenberg -- Music without anxieties.
Summary: Explores the violin concerto from Vivaldi to Bart�ok and beyond, the social and personal histories of unforgettable virtuosi, the wonderful instruments they played, and the audiences they conquered worldwide.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.

In the Baroque : Vivaldi's Four seasons and Bach's four keyboards -- Mozart-Haydn-Brunetti-Tomasini -- Viotti and Beethoven -- The meteoric Paganini and his epigones -- At the heart of German Romanticism : Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Bruch -- Brahms's Violin concerto and the end of an era -- In the after-Brahms : monsters and leprechauns -- Pillars of Modernism : Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Bart�ok -- Barber and Korngold, Shostakovich and... Schoenberg -- Music without anxieties.

Explores the violin concerto from Vivaldi to Bart�ok and beyond, the social and personal histories of unforgettable virtuosi, the wonderful instruments they played, and the audiences they conquered worldwide.

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