Buch, Englisch, 484 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Buch, Englisch, 484 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Music
ISBN: 978-1-108-03875-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795-1866), the music critic and composer, spent much of his career as professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. His publications included an influential textbook on composition and a biography of Beethoven. The preface to this two-volume study, published in 1863, ranks Gluck (1714-87) wtih Handel, Mozart and Beethoven at the pinnacle of musical achievement. Marx describes Gluck's radical innovations in operatic composition in the context of the wider European tradition, and sets them in a chronological account of the composer's life. Volume 2 covers Gluck's later life, including his residence in Paris during the 1770s, where he enjoyed the patronage of Marie-Antoinette but encountered controversies and intrigues. Marx discusses operas including Iphigénie en Aulide and Armide, illustrating his analyses with music examples. The substantial appendix contains longer music extracts, a facsimile manuscript page, and an index of works.
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Volume 2: Viertes Buch. Die Französische Zeit: 1. Nieder und hoch
2. Nach Frankreich
3. Die antike Iphigenie
4. Das Operngedicht Iphigenie
5. Die komposition
6. Gluck in Paris
7. Pariser leben
8. Künstler und geschäftsmann
9. Umwölkter horizont
10. Armida
11. Die komposition
12. Gluck, der schriftsteller
13. Der federkrieg
14. Iphigenie in Tauris
15. Die komposition
16. Abschied von Frankreich
Fünftes Buch. Der Ausgang: 1. Letzte zeit
2. Gluck
3. Und die oper
4. Oper und tragödie
Anhang: Ueber den karakter der tonarten
Autograph von Gluck
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