Jean Sibelius and His World /

Jean Sibelius and His World / / ed. by Daniel M. Grimley.

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Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the heig...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Byron,
Botstein, Leon,
Bullock, Philip Ross,
Goss, Glenda Dawn,
Grimley, Daniel M.,
Kallberg, Jeffrey,
Menin, Sarah,
Mäkelä, Tomi,
Paddison, Max,
Virtanen, Timo,
HerausgeberIn:
Grimley, Daniel M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments and Permissions
  • Sibelius, Finland, and t he Idea of Landscape
  • Part I. Essays
  • Sibelius and the Russian Traditions
  • From Heaven's Floor to the Composer's Desk: Sibelius's Musical Manuscripts and Compositional Process
  • Theatrical Sibelius: The Melodramatic Lizard
  • The Wings of a Butterfly: Sibelius and the Problems of Musical Modernity
  • "Thor's Hammer": Sibelius and British Music Critics, 1905-1957
  • Jean Sibelius and His American Connections
  • Art and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno
  • Storms, Symphonies, Silence: Sibelius's Tempest Music and the Invention of Late Style
  • Waving from the Periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish Pavilions
  • Old Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century
  • PART II. DOCUMENTS
  • Selections from Adolf Paul's A Book About a Human Being
  • Some Viewpoints Concerning Folk Music and Its Influence on the Musical Arts
  • Selection from Erik Furuhjelm's Jean Sibelius: A Survey of his Life and Music
  • Adorno on Sibelius
  • Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy
  • Index
  • Notes on the Contributors

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