Mark Mitchell

Virtuosi

A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

He edited The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780253337573
• ISBN-10: 0253337577
• Artikelnr.: 21273801

Autorenporträt

Mark Mitchell is the author of Virtuosi and Vladimir de Pachmann both published by Indiana University Press. He is the recipient of a John Simon guggenheim Fellowship for 2006-2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
The Less Fractious World
1. The Triumph of Marsyas
2. "Le concert, c'est moi"
3. The Critic and the Spider
After Two Concerts
4. Notes on Gourmandism
5. The Circus
6. The Nature of the Bis
7. "The Colour of Classics"
Of Paris
8. Some Virtuosi in Literature
9. The Virtuoso at Home
10. Possibilities of a Homosexual Aesthetic of Virtuosity
11. Celluloid
12. "The pianola 'replaces' Sappho's barbitos"
13. Musical Chairs; or, Il virtuoso seduto
14. "Aut Caesar, aut nihil"
Aristocracy
15. Muscles and Soul
16. Mephistopheleses in Soutanes
The Angel of the Mud
Bibliography