From C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Romantic Sturm und Drang to Chopin, Berlioz and Wagner. Walsh’s recent book on Debussy was excellent.
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978057135695906/10/2022
Categories: 15. Books for Christmas 2022: Performing Arts, Books for Christmas 2022, Music
Tags: Austria, Germany
From a Bookshelf nearby
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Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
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Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
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The stupendous and vaulting 'Symphony of a Thousand', first performed in Munich in 1910 to huge acclaim, and its effect on those around the composer: Berg and Schoenberg, Korngold, Bruno Wal... read more
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
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As a young man in Germany, AW's grandfather published Kafka and several other depraved authors whose work the Nazis were keen to burn. He fled in 1933, eventually settling in New York where ... read more