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Newlin’s book is an influential mid-century attempt to understand Bruckner, Mahler and Schoenberg as successive stages in a specifically Viennese and Austro-German historical development. Originating in the author’s Columbia doctoral work and later revised, it connects stylistic analysis with intellectual, literary and political context. Bruckner’s enlarged symphonic inheritance,…

This dossier covers Vivaldi: Genius of the Baroque, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Marc Pincherle. The volume is useful because it helps place its subject within a wider historical, analytical or documentary context and complements the rest of the Library catalogue with a clearly identified title-and-author record.

This biography documents the career and artistic profile of Arturo Toscanini, placing conducting practice, institutional appointments, repertoire, rehearsals, recordings and professional networks within a chronological life narrative. It is particularly useful for reconstructing how twentieth-century orchestral culture was shaped by individual conductors and by the ensembles, opera houses…

Dvořák is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Antonín Dvořák. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary testimony, later recollection and modern biographical…

This expanded dossier treats Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius as a substantial source on Glenn Gould. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the…

This expanded dossier treats Beethoven: The Music and the Life as a substantial source on Ludwig van Beethoven. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference…

This dossier identifies Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach by Manfred F. Bukofzer 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…