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Leonard Bernstein
Paul Myers
Illustrated biography / survey · 1998 · English
Paul Myers. Leonard Bernstein. Phaidon, 1998.
This dossier covers Leonard Bernstein, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Paul Myers. 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.
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Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century
Paul Kildea
Biography / composer · 2013 · English
Paul Kildea. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century. Allen Lane, 2013.
This curated dossier identifies Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea as a distinct biographical or documentary source within Classical Archive. It is included not merely as a title record but as a research-oriented entry: the book is indexed by subject, author and title…
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The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music
Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski
Classical recording guide · Multiple editions · English
Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski. The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music. London: Penguin, Multiple editions.
The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication.…
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Gustav Mahler
Jens Malte Fischer
Scholarly biography / cultural history · 2011 · English (translated from German)
Jens Malte Fischer. Gustav Mahler. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780300134445.
Fischer’s biography is a large-scale reconstruction of Mahler’s life in which personal history, conducting career, compositional development and the cultural world of fin-de-siècle Vienna are treated as parts of one argument. The English edition is a translation by Stewart Spencer of the 2003 German original. The book makes…
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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Correspondence / travel letters / primary source · 1860s edition · English, translated from German
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland. Boston / New York: Oliver Ditson & Co.; C. H. Ditson & Co., 1860s edition.
These letters document Mendelssohn’s travels through Italy and Switzerland and offer first-person evidence for his reactions to landscape, art, cities, performers, religious music and social life. They are especially valuable because the travel years overlap with a period of major artistic development and with works whose later reception…
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The Art of Music
C. Hubert H. Parry
Music history / aesthetics · 1893 · English
C. Hubert H. Parry. The Art of Music. London / New York: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. / D. Appleton editions, 1893.
Parry’s 1893 synthesis traces musical development from early and folk practices through the formation of Western art music, combining historical narrative with an evolutionary theory of musical style. It is especially useful for understanding late-Victorian music historiography and the intellectual assumptions through which nineteenth-century writers organized the history…
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The Evolution of the Art of Music
C. Hubert H. Parry
Music history / evolutionary aesthetics · 1896 · English
C. Hubert H. Parry. The Evolution of the Art of Music. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1896.
Published in 1896 as a revision and expansion of The Art of Music, this volume develops Parry’s idea of music history as a continuous process of organization and expressive growth. Its chapters move from scales and folk music to choral polyphony, instrumental forms, opera and modern tendencies, making…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume I: The Art-Work of the Future, etc.
Richard Wagner
Collected prose / aesthetics · 1892 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume I: The Art-Work of the Future, etc.. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume II: Opera and Drama
Richard Wagner
Aesthetic treatise / opera theory · 1900 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume II: Opera and Drama. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1900.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume III: The Theatre
Richard Wagner
Collected prose / theatre and criticism · 1907 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume III: The Theatre. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1907.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume IV: Art and Politics
Richard Wagner
Collected prose / cultural politics · 1895 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume IV: Art and Politics. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1895.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume V: Actors and Singers
Richard Wagner
Performance writings / theatre practice · 1895 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume V: Actors and Singers. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1895.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume VI: Religion and Art
Richard Wagner
Collected prose / aesthetics and religion · 1897 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume VI: Religion and Art. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume VII: In Paris and Dresden
Richard Wagner
Autobiographical and critical prose · 1898 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume VII: In Paris and Dresden. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1898.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume VIII: Posthumous, etc.
Richard Wagner
Posthumous writings / essays · 1899 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume VIII: Posthumous, etc.. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1899.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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