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Franz Liszt, Volume One: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847
Alan Walker
Biography / performance history · 1983 · English
Alan Walker. Franz Liszt, Volume One: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. ISBN 039452540X.
Franz Liszt, Volume One: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. First volume of Walker’s landmark Liszt biography, reconstructing childhood, Paris, Paganini influence, virtuoso touring, Marie d’Agoult, early compositions and the social world that created Liszt’s unprecedented celebrity. The dossier treats the book…
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Franz Liszt, Volume Two: The Weimar Years, 1848–1861
Alan Walker
Biography / performance history · 1989 · English
Alan Walker. Franz Liszt, Volume Two: The Weimar Years, 1848–1861. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. ISBN 039452540X.
Franz Liszt, Volume Two: The Weimar Years, 1848–1861 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. Covers Liszt’s Weimar period, orchestral conducting, symphonic poems, pedagogical circle, Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, the New German School and the development of his mature compositional identity. The dossier treats the book not…
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Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886
Alan Walker
Biography / performance history · 1996 · English
Alan Walker. Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. ISBN 0679425573.
Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. Final volume of Walker’s biography, treating Liszt’s Rome–Weimar–Budapest “threefold life,” late experimental works, teaching, religious commitments, Wagner family relations and the final decades of international influence. The dossier treats the book not…
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Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck
Kerala J. Snyder
Scholarly biography / organ and sacred music · 2007 · English
Kerala J. Snyder. Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2007.
This dossier identifies Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck by Kerala J. Snyder as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when the…
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Alan Jefferson
Singer biography · English
Alan Jefferson. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
A curated dossier for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf by Alan Jefferson. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even when…
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Mozart, l’homme et l’œuvre
Alfred Einstein
Biography / works study / classic Mozart scholarship · 1954 (French translation) · French, translated from German
Alfred Einstein. Mozart, l’homme et l’œuvre. Desclée de Brouwer, 1954 (French translation).
Einstein’s Mozart is one of the landmark synthetic studies of the twentieth century. Rather than separating a chronological biography from a catalogue of works, the author continually relates character, social environment and musical language. The book ranges across opera, symphony, concerto, chamber music, sacred music and the late…
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