The concerto: a listener's guide
In this book, Steinberg discusses over 120 works, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach in the 1720s to John Adams in 1994. Readers will find here the heart of the standard repertory, among them Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, eighteen of Mozart's piano concertos, all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, and major works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Bruch, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Elgar, Sibelius, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff. The book also provides introductions to the achievement of twentieth…
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- Full title :The concerto : a listener's guide / Michael Steinberg.
Summary
In this book, Steinberg discusses over 120 works, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach in the 1720s to John Adams in 1994. Readers will find here the heart of the standard repertory, among them Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, eighteen of Mozart's piano concertos, all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, and major works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Bruch, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Elgar, Sibelius, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff. The book also provides introductions to the achievement of twentieth-century masters such as Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. --From publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:2000.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
Notes
Originally published: 1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 506 pages : : music ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0195139313, 9780195139310, 0195103300, 9780195103304
- oclc:ocm45041572
- LC Classification:ML1263
- Dewey Decimal:784.23015
Table of Contents
Adams -- Bach -- Barber -- Bartók -- Beethoven -- Berg -- Brahms -- Birdge -- Bruch -- Carter -- Chausson -- Copland -- Dvořák -- Elgar -- Grieg -- Hindemith -- Korngold -- Lalo -- Ligeti -- Liszt -- Lutosławski -- Martin -- Mendelssohn -- Mozart -- Nielsen -- Perle -- Prokofiev -- Rachmaninoff -- Ravel -- Reger -- Saint-Saëns -- Schoenberg -- Schuman -- Schumann -- Sessions -- Shostakovich -- Sibelius -- Strauss -- Stravinsky -- Tchaikovsky -- Walton -- Zimmermann.
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