Joseph E. Morgan

Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber

A Listener's Companion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carl Maria von Weber is recognized as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. Morgan walks readers through Weber's masterpieces, providing key insights by integrating critical points in the composer's life and the burgeoning Romantic and Nationalist movements in Germany that Weber's music came to champion.

Produktdetails

• Listener's Companion
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781442255562
• ISBN-10: 1442255560
• Artikelnr.: 42965595

Autorenporträt

Joseph E. Morgan is assistant professor of musicology at Middle Tennessee State University. He has also served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, and Boston University. He is the author of Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon and Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: A Child Born into a Changing World: The Juvenalia Chapter Two:
Romantic Wanderings in Napoleon's Europe: The First Adult Works Chapter
Three: Communion with Friends: The Concertos and Abu Hassan Chapter Four:
The Patriot Emerges: Patriotic Songs, the Song Cycle, The Concertino, The
Concertante, and the Cantata Chapter Five: Toward the German Opera: The
Masses and Great Instrumental Works Chapter Six: The Dark Huntsman and the
Libretto: Der Freischütz Chapter Seven: Fame and Infirmity: Euryanthe,
Concertstück in f minor. Chapter Eight: The Last Commission: Oberon Chapter
Nine: Death and Memory: The Fantastic Three Overtures