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Who does not ponder what inspires creativity? Why does one person excel as a doctor, another as an artist, and yet a third as a composer? Why do some fortunate people seem overly endowed with an abundance of creativity-this most precious of gifts-and others with little or none at all? Can creative inspiration be nurtured slowly and, suddenly, spring forth to mesmerize and enchant the world? In the words of Emanuel Ax, we are given "fascinating glimpses...
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"Think of a composer right now. Was it a white man? Perhaps in old-fashioned clothing and wild hair? The music history we're told is one dominated by men, and even then, only a select few enter the zeitgeist. This conventional history perpetuates the myth of "great works" created by "genius" artists. Men who enjoyed institutional privilege during their lifetimes and have since been enshrined by an industry of publishers and record labels. But just...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Loves of Great Composers" by Gustav Kobbé. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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• Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child genius.
• Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La Traviata.
• Johann Strauss, 'The Waltz King'.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan Lake.
• Irving Berlin who wrote There's No Business Like Show Business.
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Wagner's music, more than any other, is the sign and symbol of the nineteenth century. The men to whom it was disclosed, and who first sought to refuse, and then accepted it, passionately, without reservations, found in it their truth. It came to their ears as the sound of their own voices. It was the common, the universal tongue. Not alone on Germany, not alone on Europe, but on every quarter of the globe that had developed coal-power civilization,...
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A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's "What Makes It Great"™
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece-which...
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THE OPERA GUIDE, 100 POPULAR COMPOSERS surveys the world's greatest opera composers and their most popular works. Beginning with Monteverdi, who wrote the first important operas, they range through the repertory up to today's groundbreaking works by Philip Glass, George Benjamin and other living composers.
As David Pountney explains in his foreword, opera has steadily grown over the last 400 years and is now more popular and more diverse than ever...
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Features 16 of Bach's transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (piano and harpsichord) of concertos for violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann, and others. Each richly displays a dynamic virtuosity that makes their performance an exhilarating experience. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann. Table of Contents.
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Rocky. Silverado. Clash of the Titans. Once you hear the musical themes of these films, they take up permanent residence in your head. In the grandest cinematic tradition, great adventure movies require great adventure scores to fully express the scope of their triumph, tragedy and romance. These scores become characters themselves in the stories they help to tell. The triumphant fanfares, pounding rhythms and soaring strings bring a magical element...
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"The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers" by George P. Upton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...
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"Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern's help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED,...
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Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator, an artistic soul. From his early career at the Hamburg Temple and German Army service in World War I, to his wandering years in the Eastern United States and founding of the Society for Jewish Culture–Fairfax...
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The absorbing, comprehensive story of an absolutely unique experiment in classical music, involving many key figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements Les Six were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music, and here their remarkable story is told for the first time. A musical experiment originally conceived by Erik Satie and then built upon by Jean Cocteau, Les Six were...
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