Diese Reihe befasst sich eingehend mit den Leben und Werken herausragender Komponisten. Jeder Band bietet eine tiefgehende Untersuchung ihres Rezeptionsverlaufs, ihrer Aufführungspraxis und biografischer Details. Sie enthält die neueste musikwissenschaftliche und theoretische Forschung, die ihre Hauptwerke analysiert. Dies ist eine unentbehrliche Ressource für alle, die sich für Musikgeschichte und -theorie interessieren.
Drawing on firsthand recollections of those who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch's life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch's works and compositional practice, setting his output in its historical and cultural contexts.
This book explores the rich and influential career of one of jazz music's central figures, from his work as a composer to his cultural legacy in jazz, popular music and modern media. Leading authors offer clear, engaging, and scholarly insights into Duke Ellington's work and critical reception, from musical, historical, and international perspectives.
This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.
The advances in Haydn scholarship would have been unthinkable to earlier generations, who honoured the composer more in word than in deed. Haydn Studies deals with many aspects of a composer who is perennially fresh, concentrating principally on matters of reception, style and aesthetics and presenting many interesting readings of the composer's work. Haydn has never played a major role in accounts of cultural history and has never achieved the emblematic status accorded to composers such as Beethoven, Debussy and Stravinsky, in spite of his radical creative agenda: this volume broadens the base of our understanding of the composer.
Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer's popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.