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Jean Sibelius and his world /

Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the heig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grimley, Daniel M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Colección:A Princeton University e-book
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sibelius, Finland, and the idea of landscape / Daniel M. Grimley
  • Part I: Essays. Sibelius and the Russian traditions / Philip Ross Bullock ; From heaven's floor to the composer's desk: Sibelius's musical manuscripts and compositional process / Timo Virtanen ; Theatrical Sibelius: the melodramatic lizard / Jeffrey Kallberg ; The wings of a butterfly: Sibelius and the problems of musical modernity / Tomi Mäkelä ; "Thor's hammer": Sibelius and British music critics, 1905-1957 / Byron Adams ; Jean Sibelius and his American connections / Glenda Dawn Goss ; Art and the ideology of nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno / Max Paddison ; Storms, symphonies, silence: Sibelius's Tempest music and the invention of late style / Daniel M. Grimley ; Waving from the periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish pavilions / Sarah Menin ; Old masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the twentieth century / Leon Botstein
  • Part II: Documents. Selections from Adolf Paul's A book about a human being / translated by Annika Lindskog, introduced by Daniel M. Grimley ; Some viewpoints concerning folk music and its influence on the musical arts / Jean Sibelius, translated from the Swedish by Margareta Martin, introduced by Daniel M. Grimley ; Adorno on Sibelius / translated bu Susan H. Gillespie, introduced by Daniel M. Grimley ; Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius memorial controversy / introduced and translated by Daniel M. Grimley.