Watt Ernest Newman

A Critical Biography
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78744-028-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Music in Britain, 1600-2000

Examines the genesis of Ernest Newman's major publications in the context of prevailing intellectual trends in history, criticism and biography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watt, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ernest Newman and the Challenge of Critical Biography
Formation of a Critical Sensibility: The 1880s and 1890s
Social, Literary and Musical Criticism: 1893-1897
A Rationalist Manifesto: Pseudo-Philosophy at the end of the Nineteenth Century, 1897
Music History and the Comparative Method: Gluck and the Opera, 1895
From Manchester to Moscow: Essays on Music, 1900-1920
'The World of Music': Essays in The Sunday Times, 1920-1958
Biographical and Musicological Tensions: The Man Liszt, 1934
Sceptical and Transforming: Books on Wagner, 1899-1959
Conclusion: Ernest Newman Remembered
Appendix: Newman's Freethought Lectures, 1894-1896

Über Autor(innen)

Watt Paul:
PAUL WATT is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (The Boydell Press, 2017) and editor of The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 (with Michael Allis) (The Boydell Press, 2020).