The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-58046-347-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 324 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

The first English work dealing in detail with the life and musical influences of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975).

Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) was one of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century. As well as writing several operas, he composed a large number of works in which the human voice, whether in solo or in chorus, plays an important role. Dallapiccola also set texts by writers as diverse as James Joyce, Salvatore Quasimodo, Antonio Machado, Goethe, and Heine. This book is the first in English to deal with Dallapiccola as a whole, from thefirst, hesitant vocal compositions of his student years up to the works of his last decade, in which Italian lyricism is combined with great formal rigor. The author suggests that Dallapiccola should be understood not only as aninfluential figure in the post-war developments of Italian music, but also as one who renewed and revitalized the older traditions of Italian music.

Raymond Fearn is Professor of Music, Keele University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fearn, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Beginnings: 1904-1938
Self-Exile and Discovery 1939-1945
Towards the Light of Freedom: 1945-1948
The Serial Idea: 1948-1953
Text and Symbol: 1954-1964
Ulysses, Wanderer and Discoverer: 1965-1975