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360 pages 26 cm Slavonic music and the western world -- Chopin and the orchestra -- The genesis of the 'Bartered Bride' -- Dvorak's musical personality -- An erotic diary for piano -- Realism in Janacek's operas -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian composer -- Tchaikovsky : some centennial reflections -- Tchaikovsky's operas -- Mussorgsky's 'Boris' and Pushkin's -- The Mediterranean element in 'Boris Godunov' -- Rimsky-Korsakov as a self-critic -- Rimsky-Korsakov's songs -- Random notes on Lyadov -- Glazunov and the string quartet -- The best of Spontini -- Hoffmann as a composer -- Weber as novelist and critic -- Marschner and Wagner -- The scores of Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides' -- Schumann's Op. I and III -- Schumann's 'Jugendsinfonie' in G minor -- The three scores of Schumann's D minor symphony -- On a dull overture by Schumann -- Wagner's second thoughts -- Nietzsche's attitude to Wagner : a fresh view -- An outline of Mahler -- Delius and his literary sources -- The Bartok of the quartets Includes bibliographical references
- Author
- Gerald Abraham
- Publisher
- New York, St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1968
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Music, Arts
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