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Lies and Epiphanies : Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg.
Lies and Epiphanies' offers case studies of ""inspiration"" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their ""epiphanies"" played a determining role in the reception histo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2014.
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| Colección: | Eastman studies in music.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Lies and Epiphanies' offers case studies of ""inspiration"" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their ""epiphanies"" played a determining role in the reception history of their works: the finale of Mahler's Second Symphony, for instance, was supposedly inspired by a ""lightning bolt"" of inspiration at the funeral of Hans von Bülow. Chris Walton looks behind these lightning bolts to explore these composers' dual roles as author and self-commentator, revealing how the supposedly extra-rational world of crea. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (182 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781580468435 1580468438 |