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Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor. He is considered one of the greatest organists of his time, a prolific composer in nearly every genre, professor of organ and composition at the Paris Conservatory, academician and administrator at the Institute of France, journalist, conductor, music editor, scholar, correspondent, inspired visionary, and man of deep culture.
An appendix constitutes the most complete listing ever compiled of Widor's oeuvre. Each work is dated as accurately as possible and includes the publisher, plate number, dedicatee, and relevant commentary. Another appendix lists Widor's complete published writings, otherthan the scores of press reviews he penned over several decades.
Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata illuminates the life and work of one of France's most distinguished yet neglected musicians of the belle epoque.
John Near is William Martin and Mina Merrill Prindle Professor of Fine Arts and college organist at Principia College.
Composers --- Widor, Charles-Marie, --- Widor, Charles, --- Widor, Charles Marie Jean Albert, --- Widor, C.-M. --- Widor, Ch. M. --- Charles-Marie Widor. --- Paris Conservatory. --- Reginald Goodall. --- academician. --- composer. --- eucatastrophe. --- organist.
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"In the course of a multifaceted career, Karl Straube (1873-1950) rose to positions of immense cultural authority in a German musical world caught in unprecedented artistic and sociopolitical upheaval. Son of a German harmonium-builder and an intellectually inclined English mother, Straube established himself as Germany's iconic organ virtuoso by the turn of the century. His upbringing in Bismarck's Berlin encouraged him to develop intensive interests in world history and politics. He quickly became a sought-after teacher, editor, and confidante to composers and intellectuals, whose work he often significantly influenced. As the eleventh successor to J. S. Bach in the cantorate of St. Thomas School, Leipzig, he focused the choir's mission as curator of Bach's works and, in the unstable political climate of the interwar years, as international emissary for German art. His fraught exit from the cantorate in 1939 bore the scars of his Nazi affiliations and issued in a final decade of struggle and disillusionment as German society collapsed. Christopher Anderson's book presents the first richly detailed examination of Karl Straube's remarkable life, situated against the background of the dynamic and sometimes sinister nationalism that informed it. Through extensive examination of primary sources, Anderson reveals a brilliant yet deeply conflicted musician whose influence until now has been recognized, even hailed, but little understood"--
Organists --- Organ players --- Keyboard players --- Organ blowers (Persons) --- Straube, Karl, --- Art. --- Biography. --- Cultural Authority. --- Germany. --- Karl Straube. --- Music History. --- Music. --- Musician. --- Organ Virtuoso. --- Organist. --- Twentieth Century.
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This comprehensive re-evaluation of John Stainer's life and work demonstrates that there was a great deal more to admire beyond The Crucifixion. The thoroughness of the research is impressive, based on profusion of sources, many of them little used until now.... A text that carries great authority, plus (almost equally important) a new and generously annotated list of Stainer's works both musical and literary. At last, Stainer has got his due, once and for all.'NICHOLAS TEMPERLEY, Professor of Music Emeritus, University of Illinois. One of the most important musicians of the Victorianera, Stainer is known for his considerable influence as a composer of Anglican liturgical music, and his corpus of secular works - madrigals and songs - presents many surprises. He was a brilliant organist, a fine scholar, theorist, pedagogue and teacher - multifarious attributes which this study elucidates and understands as part of his wider musical personality. Stainer's life is a story of extraordinary social mobility. From lowly origins he rose to become organist of St Paul's Cathedral and Professor of Music at Oxford. Yet after his premature death in 1901 he suffered almost immediate neglect except for the popularity of a handful of works, among them I saw the Lord and The Crucifixion. In rehabilitating Stainer and the crucial contribution he made to musical life, this book examines the breadth of his work as a composer, and the important role he played in the regeneration of sacredand secular musical institutions in Victorian Britain. JEREMY DIBBLE is Professor of Music at Durham University. His previous books include studies of Parry and Stanford and he is the author of numerous articles on British music. He is currently working on a dictionary of hymnology.
Composers --- Stainer, John, --- Stainer, J. --- Anglican Liturgical Music. --- British Composer. --- Choral Music. --- John Stainer. --- Music Scholar. --- Organist. --- Sacred Music. --- Secular Music. --- Victorian Era.
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The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.
Composers --- Organists --- Widor, Charles-Marie, --- Academy of Fine Arts. --- Cavaillé-Coll. --- Organ Toccata. --- Organ symphonies. --- Organist. --- Romantic era. --- Romantics. --- Saint-Sulpice.
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An examination of the role of the pedal clavichord in understanding the work of J. S. Bach, as well as its relevance to contemporary organ performances. Friederich Griepenkerl, in his 1844 introduction to Volume 1 of the first complete edition of J. S. Bach's organ works, wrote: "Actually the six Sonatas and the Passacaglia were written for a clavichord with two manuals and pedal,an instrument that, in those days, every beginning organist possessed, which they used beforehand, to practice playing with hands and feet in order to make effective use of them at the organ. It would be a good thing to let suchinstruments be made again, because actually no one who wants to study to be an organist can really do without one." What was the role of the pedal clavichord in music history? Was it a cheap practice instrument for organistsor was Griepenkerl right? Was it a teaching tool that helped contribute to the quality of organ playing in its golden age? Most twentieth-century commentary on the pedal clavichord as an historical phenomenon was written in a kindof vacuum, since there were no playable historical models with which to experiment and from which to make an informed judgment. At the heart of Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist's Guide are some extraordinary recentexperiments from the Göteborg Organ Art Center [GOArt] at Göteborg University. The Johan David Gerstenberg pedal clavichord from 1766, now in the Leipzig University museum, was documented and reconstructed; the new copy was thenused for several years as a living instrument for organ students and teachers to experience. On the basis of these experiments and experiences, the book explores, in new and artful ways, Bach's keyboard technique, a technique preserved by his first biographer, J. N. Forkel [1802], and by Forkel's own student, Griepenkerl.
Performance practice (Music) --- Pedal clavichord. --- Organ music --- Pratique de l'execution (Musique) --- Orgue, Musique d' --- Clavicorde à pedalier. --- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) --- Histoire --- History --- Bach, Johann Sebastian, --- Clavichord --- Musical performance practice --- Performing practice (Music) --- Music --- Performance --- Bach. --- Golden Age. --- Historical Models. --- Instrument. --- J.S. Bach. --- Johann Sebastian Bach. --- Keyboard Technique. --- Music History. --- Music. --- Organ Performances. --- Organ Playing. --- Organist. --- Pedal Clavichord.
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Maurice Durufl©♭: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Durufl©♭'s musical training, his studies withTournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer, recitalist, Conservatoire professor, and orchestral musician. Frazier also examines the career and contributions of Durufl©♭'s wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Durufl©♭-Chevalier. Durufl©♭ brought the church's unique language of plainsong into a compelling liaison with the secular harmonies of the modern French school (as typified by Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas)in works for his own instrument and in his widely loved masterpiece, the Requiem Op. 9 for soloists, chorus, organ, and orchestra. Drawing on the accounts of those who knew Durufl©♭ personally as well as on Frazier's own detailed research, Maurice Durufl©♭ offers a broad sketch of this modest and elusive man, widely recognized today for having created some of the greatest works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem. James E. Frazier holds advanced degrees in philosophy, organ, theology, and sacred music from St. Alphonsus College, Mt. St. Alphonsus Seminary, Hartt School of Music, the Yale University Divinity School, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He served Episcopal churches in Hartford, Connecticut, and St. Paul, Minnesota, as organist and director of music. For ten years he was director of music for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Composers --- Composers. --- Organists --- Organists. --- Duruflé, Maurice, --- France. --- Durufle, Maurice, --- Organ players --- Keyboard players --- Organ blowers (Persons) --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Diuriuflė, M., --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- French organist. --- Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier. --- Maurice Duruflé. --- Requiem. --- career. --- church musician. --- composer. --- conservatoire professor. --- musical training. --- orchestral musician. --- organist. --- Duruflé, Maurice,
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Anton Heiller is one of the twentieth century's most renowned and influential organists. Born in 1923, Heiller was trained in Vienna and rose to prominence quickly, giving his first solo recital at the age of twenty-two. Before concentrating on the organ exclusively, he was a successful conductor of the symphonic repertoire, and from 1945 until his untimely death in 1979, he was professor for organ at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.His interpretations of Bach, which included registration and articulation, as well as a consideration of the theological underpinnings, would change the way Bach is played. Anton Heiller: Organist, Composer, Conductorprovides an assessment of Heiller's works and teaching, while also examining his complex personality, one torn between strong religious devotion and the world of artistry. Underlying this story here is also the story of church music and organ playing in central Europe in the decades after World War II, and of the then unique crossroads of organ cultures in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Peter Planyavsky was Anton Heiller's successor as an organ professor in Vienna, and Organist of St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna from 1969 through 2004. He is also a prolific composer, improviser, and conductor. The book is translated from the original German by Christa Rumsey, also a former student of Heiller.
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This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.
Ives, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Correspondence. --- Critique et interprétation --- Correspondance --- Critique et interprétation --- Ives, Charles Edward --- Criticism and interpretation --- Correspondence --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Correspondence. --- Composers --- Muziekwerken. --- Aufsatzsammlung --- Ives, Charles. --- Ives, Charles --- Critique et interpretation. --- Aaron Copland. --- Alexander Scriabin. --- American Tune. --- American popular music. --- Antonín Dvorák. --- Arnold Schoenberg. --- Art music. --- Atonality. --- Bernard Herrmann. --- Career. --- Carl Ruggles. --- Charles Ives. --- Choir. --- Church music. --- Claude Debussy. --- Composer. --- Contemporary classical music. --- Creative work. --- Dissonant. --- Dudley Buck. --- E. Robert Schmitz. --- Early music. --- Entrance (musician). --- Ernest Walker (composer). --- Example (musician). --- Experimental music. --- Felix Mendelssohn. --- For Example. --- Franz Liszt. --- Gilbert and Sullivan. --- Gospel Song (19th century). --- Gustav Mahler. --- Half note. --- Harry Lauder. --- Hear the Music. --- Henry Bellamann. --- Henry Cowell. --- Horatio Parker. --- Hymn tune. --- Igor Stravinsky. --- Illustration. --- Improvisation. --- Insurance. --- Johann Sebastian Bach. --- Johannes Brahms. --- John Cage. --- La mer (Debussy). --- Leon Botstein. --- Leonard Bernstein. --- Lou Harrison. --- Ludwig van Beethoven. --- Maynard Solomon. --- Metre (music). --- Modernism (music). --- Modulation (music). --- Music Is. --- Music history. --- Music theory. --- Musical "ation. --- Musical composition. --- Musical expression. --- Musician. --- New York Philharmonic. --- Newspaper. --- Nicolas Slonimsky. --- Olin Downes. --- Orchestra. --- Organist. --- Paul Hindemith. --- Philosopher. --- Phrase (music). --- Piano Music (Louie). --- Piano. --- Polyrhythm. --- Polytonality. --- Popular music. --- Prose. --- Rhythm. --- Richard Strauss. --- Schumann. --- Singing. --- Sonata in B minor (Liszt). --- Songwriter. --- Stuart. --- Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven). --- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven). --- The Musical Quarterly. --- The New York Times. --- The Orchestra. --- Three Places in New England. --- Time signature. --- Tonality. --- Tone cluster. --- Transcendentalism. --- Universe Symphony (Ives). --- Vachel Lindsay. --- Virgil Thomson. --- Writing. --- Yaddo. --- Yale University. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Biografieën --- Brieven --- Essays --- Iconografie --- Muziekkritiek --- Recensies --- Stijlstudies --- Amerika --- Noord-Amerika --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- 20e eeuw --- Beiträge --- Einzelbeiträge --- Sammelwerk --- Aĭvz, Ch., --- Aĭvz, Charlʹz, --- Ives, Charles E. --- Ives, Charles Edward, --- Ives, Ch. E. --- Ajvz, Čarlz --- Komponist --- Danbury, Conn. --- New York, NY --- Ives, Harmony T. --- Ives, George E. --- 1874-1954 --- 20.10.1874-19.05.1954
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In 1683 English court musicians and the Musical Society of London joined forces to celebrate St Cecilia's Day (22 November) with a feast and the performance of specially composed music. The most prominent composers and poets of the age wrote for these occasions, including Henry Purcell, John Blow, John Dryden and William Congreve.
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