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Dear Sir
Dies Irae
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Hanns Eisler
Hans Heiling
Harry Burleigh
Hector Berlioz
Heinrich Schenker
Here in America
Hugo Riemann
Humoresque
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Il trovatore
In Nature's Realm (Dvorak)
James Huneker
Janek
Johannes Brahms
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Kerry Mills
La muette de Portici
Leitmotif
Leon Botstein
Leos Janacek
Libretto
Ma vlast
Maurice Peress
Maurice Sendak
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691000978
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Antonin Dvorak made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorak's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal. The essays, which make up the first part of the book, begin with Leon Botstein's inquiry into the reception of Dvorak's work in German-speaking Europe, in England, and in America. Commenting on the relationship between Dvorak and Brahms, David Beveridge offers the first detailed portrait of perhaps the most interesting artistic friendship of the era. Joseph Horowitz explores the context in which the "New World" Symphony was premiered a century ago, offering an absorbing account of New York musical life at that time. In discussing Dvorak as a composer of operas, Jan Smaczny provides an unexpected slant on the widely held view of him as a "nationalist" composer.
Michael Beckerman further investigates this view of Dvorak by raising the question of the role nationalism played in music of the nineteenth century. The second part of this volume presents Dvorak's correspondence and reminiscences as well as unpublished reviews and criticism from the Czech press. It includes a series of documents from the composer's American years, a translation of the review of Rusalka's premiere with the photographs that accompanied the article, and Janacek's analyses of the symphonic poems. Many of these documents are published in English for the first time.
Michael Beckerman is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.
