Walker Benjamin Britten

New Perspectives on His Life and Work
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84615-694-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Aldeburgh Studies in Music

An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Lucy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Muus, Arne

McMahon, Brian

Seymour, Claire

Matthews, Colin

Crilly, David

Spalding, Frances

Caird, George

Brandon, Jane

Walker, Lucy

Py, Maena

Choa, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Lucy Walker
Going Behind Britten's Back - Colin Matthews
Performing Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poemes Nos 4 and 5 (1927) - Sharon Choa
Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem? -
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten - George Caird
Britten and the Cinematic Frame - David Crilly
Storms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes - Jane Brandon
Dramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave - Frances Spalding
'The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone': Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave - Arne Muus
Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice -
From the Borough to Fraser Island - Claire Seymour
Britten and France; or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe - Maena Py
Why did Britten Return to Wartime England? - Brian McMahon

Über Autor(innen)

Walker Lucy:
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Walker Lucy:
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.