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Gustav Mahler
Bruno Walter
Memoir / first-hand testimony / interpretive study · 2007 · Spanish
Bruno Walter. Gustav Mahler. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2007. ISBN 9788420686745.
Bruno Walter’s Mahler is fundamentally different from a modern archival biography because its author was a close colleague, disciple and friend of the composer. Walter worked with Mahler in Hamburg and Vienna, conducted important premieres after Mahler’s death and became one of the central transmitters of his music.…
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Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works
Eric Walter White
Biography / works catalogue and study · 1966 · English
Eric Walter White. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works. London: Faber and Faber, 1966.
This biography or documentary study follows Igor Stravinsky 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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Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere
Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky
Conductor biography · 2001 · English
Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky. Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN 0300087136.
This biography documents the career and artistic profile of Bruno Walter, 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…
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Theme and Variations: An Autobiography
Bruno Walter
Autobiography / conductor-composer · 1946 · English
Bruno Walter. Theme and Variations: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
This expanded dossier treats Theme and Variations: An Autobiography as a substantial source on Bruno Walter. 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 between first-person…
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Music: An Art and a Language
Walter Raymond Spalding
Music appreciation / analysis · 1920 · English
Walter Raymond Spalding. Music: An Art and a Language: An analytical introduction to musical appreciation and form. Boston and New York: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1920.
Spalding presents music as both expressive art and structured language, guiding the reader from motives and phrases to larger instrumental forms with numerous score examples and historical references.
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Antonio Vivaldi: His Life and Work
Walter Kolneder
Biography / works study · 1970 · English
Walter Kolneder. Antonio Vivaldi: His Life and Work. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
This dossier identifies Antonio Vivaldi: His Life and Work by Walter Kolneder 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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The Story of the Organ
C. F. Abdy Williams
Organ history / organology · 1903 · English
C. F. Abdy Williams. The Story of the Organ. London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1903.
Abdy Williams presents the organ’s historical development, mechanical principles and changing place in church and concert life in a compact narrative intended for a broad musical readership. The book reflects the strong British interest in historical instrument construction around 1900.
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