Daniel M. Grimley Jean Sibelius and His World (Paperback) Bard Music Festival

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Jean Sibelius and His WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9780691152813ISBN: 9780691152813Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/28/2011Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 567gContributor: Daniel M. Grimley (Edited by)Author: Daniel M. GrimleyLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0691152810Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment of Finnish nationalism and the apostle of a new musical naturalism. Yet he seemingly chose that moment to stop composing altogether, despite living for three more decades. Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and nature, Jean Sibelius and His World sheds new light on the critical position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition. The essays in the book explore such varied themes as the impact of Russian musical traditions on Sibelius, his compositional process, Sibelius and the theater, his understanding of music as a fluid and improvised creation, his critical reception in Great Britain and America, his "late style" in the incidental music for The Tempest, and the parallel contemporary careers of Sibelius and Richard Strauss.Documents include the draft of Sibelius's 1896 lecture on folk music, selections from a roman clef about his student circle in Berlin at the turn of the century, Theodor Adorno's brief but controversial tirade against the composer, and the newspaper debates about the Sibelius monument unveiled in Helsinki a decade after the composer's death. The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Philip Ross Bullock, Glenda Dawn Goss, Daniel Grimley, Jeffrey Kallberg, Tomi Mkel, Sarah Menin, Max Paddison, and Timo Virtanen.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Bard Music FestivalRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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