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1815432071  Citation
Title:
Samuel Barber : his life and legacy / Howard Pollack
Persons:
Published:
Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Languages:
English
Copyright-Datum:
© 2023
Extent:
686 Seiten : Illustrationen
Series:
Information about the content:
Samuel Barber and His Family
A Musical Education
Personal Matters: Early Years
Other Formative Experiences
Early Works through 1932
More Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1933-1939
Music for a Scene from Shelley and One Day of Spring
Songs and Choruses, 1934-1940
The First Symphony and the String Quartet
The Adagio for Strings and the First Essay
The Violin Concerto and the Second Essay
Wartime Service
The Second Symphony and Excursions
The Capricorn Concerto, Horizon, and the Cello Concerto
Barber and His Contemporaries
Medea
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and "Nuvoletta"
The Piano Sonata and Mélodies passagères
Personal Matters: Later Years
A Composer's Life
Souvenirs and the Hermit Songs
Prayers of Kierkegaard, Adventure, and Summer Music
Vanessa
From the Nocturne to Die Natali
The Piano Concerto and Andromache's Farewell
The Creation of Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra in Performance
From the Chorale for Ascension Day to The Lovers
From Fadograph of a Yestern Scene to the Canzonetta
Bibliogr. context:
ISBN:
978-0-252-04490-8
Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-252-05405-1
Subject headings:
Classification:
Library of Congress Classification: ML410.B23
Dewey Decimal Classification: [23/eng/20220824] 780.92
Abstract:
A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of figures like Serge Koussevitzky and Marian Anderson. Barber's works have since became standard in concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (George Gershwin, Aaron Copland) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural milieu. Born into a musical extended family, Barber pursued his ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber's path from his precocious youth and training through a career where, from the start, the composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like Adagio for Strings, the Second Symphony, the opera Vanessa, and Piano Concerto No. 1 stand alongside revealing accounts of the music's commissioning, performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in accounts of Barber's encounters with musical contemporaries like Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Mitropoulos, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne Price to Vladimir Horowitz, patrons, admirers, and a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in and out of the arts. He also provides an eloquent portrait of the composer's decades-long relationship with, and break from, Gian Carlo Menotti. Informed by new interviews and immense archival research, Samuel Barber is the long-awaited critical and personal biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American music
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Local availability (OPAC)Library guideOpen listing Karlsruhe, Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe
Local availability (OPAC)Library guideOpen listing Lübeck, Musikhochschule Lübeck Bibliothek <Lü12>
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