Furtwängler on music : essays and addresses / edited and translated by Ronald Taylor.

Author/creator Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Other author Taylor, Ronald, 1924- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, VT : Scolar Press, ©1991.
Descriptionxvi, 182 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Part I. The practice of music. Concert programmes -- Principles of interpretation -- The tools of the conductor's trade -- Observations of a composer -- Part II. On composers. Bach -- Beethoven. Beethoven for today ; The universality of Beethoven ; Beethoven and us: on the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony -- Mendelssohn -- Wagner. On the music of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen ; The case of Wagner -- Brahms -- Bruckner -- Hindemith -- Part III. On art and life. Thoughts for all seasons -- Open letter to Dr. Joseph Goebbels -- Form and chaos -- "Greatness is simplicity."
Abstract Wilhelm Furtwängler left not only some of the greatest interpretations of operatic and symphonic music on record, but also expressed his views on musical issues of the moment in a number of outspoken essays and talks. His writings range from practical matters of performance and interpretation to aesthetic reflections on what he saw as the alarming direction in which music was developing in the wake of Schoenberg and the twelve-tone system of composition. The editor has, for the first time, translated and annotated a selection of Furtwängler's writings covering the four decades from the First World War to the conductor's death in 1954, and prefaced them with an essay on Furtwängler's controversial career and complicated personality. The result is a collection of stimulating pieces with a claim on our attention, made all the greater for reflecting the musical and philosophical ideals of one of the great conductors of the twentieth century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91020669
ISBN0859678164 :

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Music Music Stacks ML60 .F958 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold