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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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Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
Styra Avins (editor and translator); Josef Eisinger
Documentary biography / correspondence · 1997 · English
Styra Avins (editor and translator); Josef Eisinger. Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0198162340.
This biography or documentary study follows Johannes Brahms through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…
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Artur Schnabel: A Biography
César Saerchinger
Biography / performance history · 1957 · English
César Saerchinger. Artur Schnabel: A Biography. London: Cassell & Company, 1957.
Artur Schnabel: A Biography is a substantial biographical source on Artur Schnabel. Substantial post-war biography of Schnabel, valuable as an early documentary account of his Viennese background, chamber partnerships, Beethoven reputation, emigration, teaching and recording career. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative but…
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Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View
Oliver Daniel
Biography / performance history · 1982 · English
Oliver Daniel. Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1982. ISBN 0396079369.
Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View is a substantial biographical source on Leopold Stokowski. Monumental biography based on hundreds of interviews, correspondence and archival research, covering Stokowski’s origins, Philadelphia years, premieres, recording innovations, broadcasting, Hollywood, new-music advocacy and exceptionally long conducting career. The dossier treats the book not merely…
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