Witnesses and Scholars

Studies in Musical Biography

H. Lenneberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

1988
Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA (Verlag)
978-2-88124-210-6 (ISBN)

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Focusing on composers, this book explores the changing pattern of biographical and autobiographical writings. It presents not only musical biographies, but also composers' musical achievements, and the social setting within which these were accomplished.

First Published in 1988. This is Volume 5 of seven in the Musicology: A Book Series. Witnesses and Scholars, is a collection studies in musical biography. The series covers a creative range of musical topics, from historical and theoretical subjects to social and philosophical studies. Volumes thus far published show the extent of this broad spectrum. disciplinary studies, ethnomusicological works, and performance analyses. With this series, it is the aim to expand the field and definition of musical exploration and research.

H. Lennerberg

Introduction to the Series

Acknowledgments

Biography and History

Collecting Musical Biographies in the Eighteenth Century

Giorgio Vasari and Musical Biography

Toward a Composite Portrait of the

Eighteenth-Century Musician

Collective Biography and National Pride

Witnesses, Scholars and Would-Be Scholars:

Musical Biography at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

The Composer as Romantic Hero

Around Wasielewski and his Schumann Biography

The Memoirs of Eduard Hanslick

Does Documentary Biography Have a Future?

Autobiography, Creativity and Musical Meaning

Bibliography

Index

Reihe/Serie	Musicology
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
ISBN-10	2-88124-210-3 / 2881242103
ISBN-13	978-2-88124-210-6 / 9782881242106
Zustand	Neuware