Jean Sibelius and His World (eBook)

Daniel M. Grimley (Herausgeber)

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2011
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4020-5 (ISBN)

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New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all timePerhaps 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 "e;late style"e; 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 a 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 Makela, Sarah Menin, Max Paddison, and Timo Virtanen.

Autor

Daniel M. Grimley is university lecturer in music at the University of Oxford, tutorial fellow of Merton College, and senior lecturer in music at University College. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius and the author of Grieg and Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2011
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: Ainola • Akseli Gallen-Kallela • Albert Edelfelt • Alexander Scriabin • Allusion • Alvar Aalto • Andante Festivo • Art Music • Art Nouveau • Ballets Russes • Bedrich Smetana • Cambridge University Press • Cello • Classicism • Claude Debussy • Composer • Critical edition (opera) • Edvard Grieg • Edvard Munch • Eliel Saarinen • En saga • evocation • Example (musician) • Felix Mendelssohn • Ferruccio Busoni • Finland • Finns • Folk music • for example • Frank Lloyd Wright • Franz Liszt • Grand Duchy • Gustav Mahler • Harmonielehre • Helsinki • High Modernism • Ideology • Igor Stravinsky • Illustration • Ilya Repin • Incidental music • Jean Sibelius • Johan Ludvig Runeberg • Johannes Brahms • Johann Sebastian Bach • Johan Svendsen • Knut Hamsun • Kullervo (Sibelius) • Larin Paraske • Leevi Madetoja • Leon Botstein • Ludwig van Beethoven • Luonnotar (Sibelius) • Martin Wegelius • Melodic (magazine) • Melodrama • modernism • Modernism (music) • Modernity • Modulation (music) • monologue • musical composition • Musical development • Music History • Music Is • narrative • Natural Environment • Neoclassicism • Olin Downes • orchestra • Orchestration • Phrase (music) • Pohjola's Daughter • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Rehearsal letter • Richard Strauss • Richard Taruskin • Richard Wagner • Romanticism • Rosa Newmarch • Sarcasm • sergei diaghilev • Sibelius Academy • Symphonic Poem • Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) • Tapiola (Sibelius) • Teleology • The Oceanides • Theodor W. Adorno • The Orchestra • The Swan of Tuonela • The Wood Nymph • Timpani • tonality • Tribute To • Tritone • Valse triste (Sibelius) • walter damrosch • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4020-1 / 1400840201
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4020-5 / 9781400840205