Klassisk musik (ca 1750 – ca 1830)
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The text here with an introduction by Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, draws the reader's attention to the virtues of the volume, it also examines the developments in Mozart …
What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Of what elements are they comprised? How are they specified by notations? What makes a performance of one piece and not …
Mozart's collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte led to the composition of three of the greatest masterpieces in all opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così …
Beethoven's habit of composing by making large numbers of preliminary drafts and sketches was sufficiently unusual to attract attention even during his lifetime, and his creative …
Following on from his reflections on conducting the nine Beethoven symphonies, Del Mar now gives his views on the remainder of Beethoven's orchestral output. He offers analyses of …
Combines interpretations of individual works which go into issues of composition and musical history, instead of merely duplicating in words what can already be read in the scores, …
First published in hardback, in 1989, Mozart's Symphonies is the first serious attempt in any language to survey the entire panorama of Mozart's symphonic works. Accounting for …
Schroeder here sets out to challenge the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from 18th-century enlightened thinking. By means …
Philosophy of music has flourished in the last thirty years, with great advances made in the understanding of the nature of music and its aesthetics. Peter Kivy has been at the …
A guide for students of the nine Beethoven symphonies and a starting point for young conductors. Del Mar offers an analysis of the music's structure, pointing out key events in the …