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Revival: Modern Music and Musicians (1906)
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A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Index
A
Abdelazer (Purcell), 42
Abu Hassan (Weber), 183
Acis and Galatea (Handel), 75
Admeto (Handel), 70
Aida (Verdi), 289
Alceste (Gluck), 95-97
AIcina (Handel), 66, 68
Alexander Balus (Handel), 75
Alfonso und Estrella (Schubert), 206
Allegro, L’ (Handel), 81
Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss), 334
Amadigi (Handel), 69
Armide (Gluck), 100, 101
Artaserse (Gluck), 90
Atalanta (Handel), 70
Alhaliah (Handel), 82
Aus Italien (Strauss), 328
B
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel, his influence upon Haydn, 113
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 47-86;
his genius compared with Handel’s, 47;
his moral view of life, 51;
his religion, 52;
his pictorial power, 53;
church cantatas, 53, 59;
Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, 53;
Wachet auf ib.;
his grotesqueness, 54;
Mass in B minor, 54, 55, 61;
Magnificat, 54;
Passion Music, 55;
compared with The Messiah, 80;
his treatment of chorales, 59;
Christ lag in Todesbanden, ib.;
Ein’ feste Burg, 60;
his view of death, ib.;
Komm’ du süsse Todesstunde, ib.;
Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde, ib.;
Liebster Gott, wann werd’ ich sterben, 61;
Trauer Ode, ib.;
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, ib.;
organ music, ib.
Baini, G., his life of Palestrina, 14
Ballo in Maschera, Un (Verdi), 287
Banister, John, his Circe, 34
Barber of Bagdad, The (Cornelius), 256
Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart), 122, 131
Beethoven, Carl van, his behaviour to his uncle, 152
Beethoven, Johann van, his character, 143;
treatment of his son, ib.;
death, 145
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 142-176;
plays to Mozart, 142;
birth and boyhood, 143;
meets Haydn, 145;
arrives in Vienna, 146;
studies with Haydn, ib.;
his contempt of social conventions, 148;
love for Countess Theresa Brunswick, 149, 150, 160-163;
deafness, 150;
behaviour to his nephew, 152;
death, ib.;
characteristics of his music, 153;
Beethoven and programme music, 154, 221;
Pastoral symphony, 154, 165, 166;
Adieux sonata, 154;
posthumous quartets, 154, 173;
Eroica symphony, 155, 157, 159;
seventh symphony, 155, 167, 168;
Beethoven’s three periods, 156;
Moonlight sonata, ib.;
his method of working, ib.;
pianoforte sonatas, 158;
fourth symphony, 160, 161;
fifth symphony, 160, 161-165;
eighth symphony, 166-168;
Choral symphony, 169;
Kreutzer sonata, 171;
Fidelio, 174;
Missa Solemnis, 175;
Weber’s lampoon on, 177;
meets Weber, 178;
visited by Schubert, 205;
his method of working studied by Schubert, 209;
Coriolan overture, 222, 328;
Beethoven compared to Berlioz, 221;
his symphonies influence Wagner, 263
Bellini, Vincenzo, 281
Belshazzar (Handel), 75
Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz), 218
Berlioz, Hector, 215-227;
birth and childhood, 216;
studies medicine at Paris, ib.;
enters Conservatoire, ib.;
wins Prix de Rome, ib.;
literary sources of his music, 217;
Tempest fantasia, ib.;
Scenes from Faust, 217, 226;
Waverley overture, 217;
Symphonie Fantastique, 217, 222, 223, 225;
King Lear overture, 217;
Corsair overture, ib.;
marries Miss Smithson, ib.;
Requiem, 218, 225;
Harold en Italie, 218, 223, 225;
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, 218;
Roméo et Juliette, 218, 224;
Benvenuto Cellini, 218;
visits London, ib.;
La Damnation de Faust, 219, 225, 226, 234;
Te Deum, 219, 225;
Les Troyens, 219, 227;
character of his music, 219;
Berlioz and programme music, 220;
Berlioz compared to Weber, ib.;
to Beethoven, 221;
his orchestration, 222;
Traité de l’ Orchestration, 223;
compared to Victor Hugo, ib.;
his influence upon Strauss, 328
Binchois, Gilles, 4
Blow, John, resigns his place as organist of Westminster Abbey to Purcell, 36
Boito, Arrigo, his association with Verdi, 290;
influence of Mefistofele upon Otello, 291
Borodin, Alexander, compared to Tchaikovsky, 315
Brahms, Johannes, 297-311;
his admiration for Verdi’s Requiem, 290;
his career, ib.;
eulogised ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- I The Beginnings of Modern Music
- II Palestrina
- III The Secularisation of Music
- IV Purcell
- V Bach and Handel
- VI Gluck
- VII Haydn
- VIII Mozart
- IX Beethoven
- X Weber
- XI Schubert
- XII Berlioz
- XIII Mendelssohn and Schumann
- XIV Chopin and Liszt
- XV Wagner
- XVI Verdi
- XVII Brahms
- XVIII Tchaikovsky
- XIX Richard Strauss
- Index