John Warrack Livres

Contains entries on individual operas, composers, librettists, singers, conductors, technical terms and other subjects connected with opera.

The first edition of John Warrack's study of Weber was published in 1968 and quickly became recognized as the standard 'life and works' - indeed the best book on Weber in any language. The second edition was produced in 1976 to mark the 150th anniversary of Weber's death in London, and is reissued here. John Warrack's study gives a detailed account of the life in which the music is discussed (with analysis and music examples) in chronological order. It is a scholarly study based on first-hand research in German and other archives, but it is also elegantly written, and fully alive to general cultural and historical implications. It is a book for the music-lover as well as the scholar. This second edition contains a new concluding chapter, an important select bibliography of over 100 entries, and a useful family tree which was not in the first edition.

"...a fascinating and sympathetic picture of Tchaikovsky - lonely, insecure and tormented by his homosexuality - showing how his personality interacted with his prodigious musical talent to produce some of the most memorable and expressive music of the late nineteenth century. Tchaikovsky's extraordinary friendship with Nadezhda von Meck (a relationship entered into and sustained entirely by the exchange of letters) provides a particularly rich source of information about how Tchaikovsky viewed the creative process and his own talent."--back cover.

Oxfordský slovník opery přináší ověřené i nejnovější údaje a informace z oblasti vážné hudby v podobě 3 500 abecedně seřazených hesel pro poučení i potěšení každého milovníka i pouhého zájemce o tento hudební žánr, ať již ho navštěvuje v divadle či na koncertech, nebo mu naslouchá doma u televizní obrazovky, která věrnězprostředkovává hluboké umělecké zážitky.

Oxfordský slovník opery přináší ověřené i nejnovější údaje a informace z oblasti vážné hudby v podobě 3 500 abecedně seřazených hesel pro poučení i potěšení každého milovníka i pouhého zájemce o tento hudební žánr, ať již ho navštěvuje v divadle či na koncertech, nebo mu naslouchá doma u televizní obrazovky, která věrně zprostředkovává hluboké umělecké zážitky.