Walton Othmar Schoeck

Life and Works
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-58046-730-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 457 Seiten

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walton, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Schoeck and the Swiss
Childhood and Youth
Wolf amidst the Sheep
Leipzig, Munich, and an Awful Little Moustache
Back in the Fold
Hermann Hesse, via the Dentist
Look Back in Melancholy
Chamber Music
The Art of Counterpoint
Busoni
The Picture on the Wall
Touch of Venus
Silent Bronze
Sucking Sweet Folly
Self Portrait, with Sandwich
Elegy
Goodbye to Geneva
The Bee in the Rose
Raging Queen
Storms in the Pigeon Loft
Into the Vortex
Wrong-Note Rag
Hildebill
Variations and Fugue on an Age-Old Theme
Put to the Wheel
Gisela
Lost in the Stars
Whores and Madonnas
". he can write music all right."
Tea with (Ms.) Hitler
Aryanizing Music
Arms and the Man
Castles in the Air
Goering's Bullshit
Collapse
The People at Home
The Reckoning
Transfigured Summer Nights
Silent Lights
Fair Measure
Rather Nice Horn
Sleepless in Wollishofen
Echoes and Elegies
Running on Empty
Epilogue
Othmar Schoeck: Concise Work Catalogue and Discography
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walton Chris:
Chris Walton studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich and Munich. He was head of the Music Department of the Zentralbibliothek
Zürich for ten years before being appointed chair of music at the University of Pretoria. He moved back to Switzerland in 2008 and lives today in
Solothurn. He is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has published widely on Austro-German and Swiss music.