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Dvorák and His World / ed. by Michael Beckerman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Bard Music Festival ; 31Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 12 halftones 61 music exsContent type:
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  • 9780691000978
  • 9781400831692
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.92
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking for Dvorak in December 1992 -- PART I. ESSAYS -- Reversing the Critical Tradition: Innovation, Modernity, and Ideology in the Work and Career of Antonín Dvořák -- Dvořák and Brahms: A Chronicle, an Interpretation -- Dvořák and the New World: A Concentrated Moment -- Dvořák: The Operas -- The Master's Little Joke: Antonín Dvořák and the Mask of Nation -- PART II. DOCUMENTS AND CRITICISM -- Reviews and Criticism from Dvořák's American Years: Articles by Henry Krehbiel, James Huneker, H. L. Mencken, and James Creelman -- Letters from Dvořák's American Period: A Selection of Unpublished Correspondence Received by Dvořák in the United States -- Antonín Dvořák: A Biographical Sketch -- Dvořák in the Czech Press: Unpublished Reviews and Criticism -- A Discussion of Two Tone Poems Based on Texts by Karel Jaromir Erben: The Wood Dove and The Golden Spinning Wheel -- Index of Names and Compositions -- List of Contributors
Summary: Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorák's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal. The essays, which make up the first part of the book, begin with Leon Botstein's inquiry into the reception of Dvorák's work in German-speaking Europe, in England, and in America. Commenting on the relationship between Dvorák and Brahms, David Beveridge offers the first detailed portrait of perhaps the most interesting artistic friendship of the era. Joseph Horowitz explores the context in which the "New World" Symphony was premiered a century ago, offering an absorbing account of New York musical life at that time. In discussing Dvorák as a composer of operas, Jan Smaczny provides an unexpected slant on the widely held view of him as a "nationalist" composer. Michael Beckerman further investigates this view of Dvorák by raising the question of the role nationalism played in music of the nineteenth century. The second part of this volume presents Dvorák's correspondence and reminiscences as well as unpublished reviews and criticism from the Czech press. It includes a series of documents from the composer's American years, a translation of the review of Rusalka's premiere with the photographs that accompanied the article, and Janácek's analyses of the symphonic poems. Many of these documents are published in English for the first time.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking for Dvorak in December 1992 -- PART I. ESSAYS -- Reversing the Critical Tradition: Innovation, Modernity, and Ideology in the Work and Career of Antonín Dvořák -- Dvořák and Brahms: A Chronicle, an Interpretation -- Dvořák and the New World: A Concentrated Moment -- Dvořák: The Operas -- The Master's Little Joke: Antonín Dvořák and the Mask of Nation -- PART II. DOCUMENTS AND CRITICISM -- Reviews and Criticism from Dvořák's American Years: Articles by Henry Krehbiel, James Huneker, H. L. Mencken, and James Creelman -- Letters from Dvořák's American Period: A Selection of Unpublished Correspondence Received by Dvořák in the United States -- Antonín Dvořák: A Biographical Sketch -- Dvořák in the Czech Press: Unpublished Reviews and Criticism -- A Discussion of Two Tone Poems Based on Texts by Karel Jaromir Erben: The Wood Dove and The Golden Spinning Wheel -- Index of Names and Compositions -- List of Contributors

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Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorák's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal. The essays, which make up the first part of the book, begin with Leon Botstein's inquiry into the reception of Dvorák's work in German-speaking Europe, in England, and in America. Commenting on the relationship between Dvorák and Brahms, David Beveridge offers the first detailed portrait of perhaps the most interesting artistic friendship of the era. Joseph Horowitz explores the context in which the "New World" Symphony was premiered a century ago, offering an absorbing account of New York musical life at that time. In discussing Dvorák as a composer of operas, Jan Smaczny provides an unexpected slant on the widely held view of him as a "nationalist" composer. Michael Beckerman further investigates this view of Dvorák by raising the question of the role nationalism played in music of the nineteenth century. The second part of this volume presents Dvorák's correspondence and reminiscences as well as unpublished reviews and criticism from the Czech press. It includes a series of documents from the composer's American years, a translation of the review of Rusalka's premiere with the photographs that accompanied the article, and Janácek's analyses of the symphonic poems. Many of these documents are published in English for the first time.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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