LEADER 04181nam 22006012 450 001 9911046222103321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-282-89498-6 010 $a9786612894985 010 $a1-58046-715-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781580467155 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056001 035 $a(MH)011528360-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412610 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11250357 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412610 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368152 035 $a(PQKB)11530083 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781580467155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3561896 035 $a(OCoLC)680017961 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_89786 035 $a(DE-B1597)676634 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781580467155 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056001 100 $a20120511d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeethoven's century $eessays on composers and themes /$fHugh Macdonald 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aEastman studies in music,$x1071-9989 225 0$aEastman studies in music,$x1071-9989 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-58046-275-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aComposers. Beethoven's game of cat and mouse ; Schubert's pendulum ; Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland ; Berlioz and Schumann ; Alkan's instruments ; Liszt the conductor ; Wolf's Wagner ; Massenet's craftsmanship ; Skryabin's conquest of time ; Jana?c?ek's narratives -- Themes. Raise your glass to French music! ; Comic opera ; Repeats ; [G-flat major, 9/8 meter] ; The musicians' arrondissement ; Les anglais ; Dr. Mephistopheles ; The prose libretto ; 'Un pays ou? tous sont musiciens--' ; Modernisms that failed. 330 $aIn 'Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes', world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. 'Beethoven's Century' addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, and how today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendship between Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera librettos in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Jana?cek, are brought to life. 'Beethoven's Century' concludes with a wry look at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras. 410 0$aEastman studies in music. 606 $aMusic$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a780.9/034 700 $aMacdonald$b Hugh$f1940-$0191567 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046222103321 996 $aBeethoven's century$94480869 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress