Best Romantic Period Composers - April 2024

French Piano Music, An Anthology (Anthology, Forty-Four Piece by Twenty-Eight Composers)

Piano music is as essential to France as the opera is to Italy or lieder to Germany. This anthology, a broad cross-section of French piano music, selects and presents 44 short piano works ranging from 1670 to 1906. Twenty-eight composers, all French or active in France, are featured: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières , Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Campra, François Couperin, André-Cardinal Destouches, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Jean-François Dandrieu, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Dagincourt, Louis-Claude Daquin, Johann Schobert, François-Joseph Gossec, Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, Georges ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486233812
• UPC: 800759233816
• ASIN: 0486233812
• ISBN: 0486233812
• Brand: Dover Publications
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Masterwork Duets for Women: 8 Standards from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Periods

Eight of the world's best-loved duets for women are brought together for the first time in one publication. Representing a wide range of styles and composers, these selections from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods are presented with historical information, IPA pronunciation guides, and suggestions for performance. Edited and arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen, this truly valuable collection is an indispensable resource for duet singing.

• ASIN: 1470626640
• UPC: 038081490335
• ASIN: 1470626640
• ISBN: 1470626640
• Brand: Alfred
• Manufacturer: Alfred Music

Bruckner Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)

This volume contains historical and analytical essays on Anton Bruckner and his music. For the past century the principal concerns of scholars of Bruckner's music have been his personal and musical relationship with Wagner, editorial problems in his scores, his enigmatic personality, and the assessment of his monumental late-nineteenth-century style. The studies in this volume consider these issues in the light of the latest research. Of interest to the lay person will be the discussions of the manner in which politics and special interests have affected the dissemination and perception of Bru... [Read More]

• ASIN: 052157014X
• ASIN: 052157014X
• ISBN: 052157014X
• Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic Composer

• ASIN: 0306809338
• ASIN: 0306809338
• ISBN: 0306809338
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

The Lives of the Great Composers

An updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s. In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influenced by their predecessors. Schonberg discusses the lives and works of the foremost figures in classical music, among them Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, the Schumanns, Copland, and Stravinsky, weaving a fabric rich in detail and anecdote. He also includes... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393038572
• ASIN: 0393038572
• ISBN: 0393038572
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Romantic Music: A Concise History (World of Art)

A concise history of Romantic music and composers from Schubert to Sibelius

• ASIN: 050020215X
• ASIN: 050020215X
• ISBN: 9780500202159
• Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson

Chopin Studies 2 (Cambridge Composer Studies) (Vol 2)

Following the success of Chopin Studies, this second volume of essays contains the most recent Chopin research of twelve leading scholars. Three main themes are addressed: reception history, aesthetics and criticism, and performance studies. The essays explore Chopin as classical composer, as salon composer, as modernist, as "otherworldly," as androgyne, and define aspects of his musical language, including narrative structures, progressive tendencies and functional ambiguity.

• ASIN: 0521416477
• ASIN: 0521416477
• ISBN: 0521416477
• Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

Dvorák and His World (The Bard Music Festival)

Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorák's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal. The essays, which make up the first part of the book, begin with Leon Botstein's inquiry into the reception of Dvorák's work in German-speaking Europe, in England, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691000972
• ASIN: 0691000972
• ISBN: 0691000972
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Seeing the Real You at Last: Life and Love on the Road with Bob Dylan

Britta Lee Shain was a friend of Bob Dylan's until he asked her to join him on the road in the mid 1980s, at which point she became more than a friend. In this intimate and elliptical memoir of their time together, at home in Los Angeles and on tour with Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead, she offers a unique portrait of the romantic, earthbound, and poetic soul trapped in the role of Being Bob Dylan.Entire libraries of books have been written about Dylan, but few--if any--offer any lasting insight into the man behind the shades. Until now. Written with the elegance of a poet and storytelling sna... [Read More]

• ASIN: 190827994X
• ASIN: 190827994X
• ISBN: 190827994X
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Jawbone Press

Dvorak: Romantic Music's Most Versatile Genius (Unlocking the Masters)

The music of Antonin Dvorák defies fashion. He is one of the very few composers whose works entered the international mainstream during his own lifetime, and some of them have remained there ever since. The pieces that historically define his international reputation, however, represent only a small fraction of what he actually composed. They comprise just one facet of his complex and remarkably rich artistic personality. This book invites readers to celebrate his extraordinary achievement and experience the pleasure of getting to know more than 90 of his most important works. This edition al... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1574671073
• UPC: 073999694833
• ASIN: 1574671073
• ISBN: 1574671073
• Brand: Brand: Amadeus Press
• Manufacturer: Amadeus

Haydn and His World

Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. In this volume, the first collection of essays in English devoted to this composer, a group of leading musicologists examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural crosscurrents of his time. Haydn and His World... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691057990
• ASIN: 0691057990
• ISBN: 0691057990
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Revolution and Religion Music Liszt

This study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Liszt and his music aims to restore a balanced view of both man and artist. In contrast to the familiar portrayal of the virtuoso pianist, Liszt is considered here as a serious man of ideas: in tracing the composer's relationships and attitudes to the twin themes of revolution and religion, Paul Merrick finds much of Liszt's music, both secular and sacred, to be inspired by the same deeply felt religious conviction that also governed his private life from an early age. The first part of the book is primarily biographical and considers Liszt's reacti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0521083516
• ASIN: 0521083516
• ISBN: 0521083516
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music, but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. It shows how Bach's concertos challenge (as ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691006865
• ASIN: 0691006865
• ISBN: 0691006865
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Elgar: Enigma Variations (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

• ASIN: 0521631750
• ASIN: 0521631750
• ISBN: 0521631750
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

Six Great Piano Trios in Full Score (Dover Chamber Music Scores)

Here are six of the most studied, performed, and recorded trios for piano, violin, and cello. They include the popular trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, which was named the "Ghost" trio by Beethoven's student, Carl Czerny, who thought the eerie second movement suggested the specter of Hamlet's father.Additional works include the trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1; the trio in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2; the trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3; the trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2; and the trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, also known as the "Archduke" trio. These works are reproduced from the authoritative B... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486253988
• UPC: 800759253982
• ASIN: 0486253988
• ISBN: 0486253988
• Brand: Dover Publication
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

50 Best Romantic Piano Classics

50 BEST ROMANTIC PIANO CLASSICS

• UPC: 151210989

Best Romantic Classics 50 / Various

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• UPC: 192490738

Best of Romantic Piano Music / Various

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• UPC: 55693315

Romantic Piano (best Of)

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• UPC: 930897513

So many of the great showpieces of the orchestral repertoire come from the Romantic period in Russia. Poised on the brink of Europe and Central Asia, composers combined the increasingly virtuosic European orchestra with colorful harmonic and melodic influences from Russian lands and further east during the heyday of nationalism and the genre of picturesque program music. The program reissued here includes some of the favorites of this period, performed with breathtaking excitement under Georg Solti in a 1966 recording. The rushing strings of Glinka's overture to 'Russlan and Lyudmilla' are juxtaposed with the more lyrical prelude to another opera dealing with Russian history, Mussorgsky's 'Khovanschchina.' Borodin's epic opera 'Prince Igor' is represented too by its overture and the popular 'Polovtsian Dances.' While Rimsky-Korsakov is absent as a composer here, his handiwork is present in his masterful orchestrations of works by Mussorgsky and Borodin.Tchaikovsky is often seen as the flip side to the nationalists, a composer more concerned with being accepted in Europe than with developing an authentic Russian art, but his Symphony No. 2 (in a 1956 recording also led by Solti, which rounds out this release) is an exception. Subtitled the "Little Russian" for its use of folk tunes, the symphony concludes by firmly integrating Russian music with classical symphonic style.

So many of the great showpieces of the orchestral repertoire come from the Romantic period in Russia. Poised on the brink of Europe and Central Asia, composers combined the increasingly virtuosic European orchestra with colorful

• UPC: 3449891