Jan Holcman, André Gide, Arnold Schoenberg

Music and Philosophy Volume Two (eBook, ePUB)

The Legacy of Chopin, Notes on Chopin, and Style and Idea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These three texts explore the power and potential of music by a renowned musicologist, a celebrated composer, and a Nobel Prize-winning author. Jan Holcman's The Legacy of Chopin is a comprehensive study of the great composer's views on music-including pianism, composition, pedagogy, criticism, and more. Drawing on extensive research from a wide range of sources, Holcman provides essential historical and musicological context for Frederic Chopin's references and concepts, making his more esoteric ideas accessible to the general reader. Nobel Prize winning author and devoted pianist André Gide presents inspiring discourse on the power of Chopin's music in Notes on Chopin. Gide depicts Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . .deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. Notes is a moving and poetic expression of profound admiration for a pioneering composer, and this edition includes rare pages and fragments from Gide's journals. In Style and Idea, Austrian composer and music theorist Arnold Schoenberg presents his vision of how music speaks to us and what it is capable of saying. Through a series of essays, Schoenberg discusses the relationship between music and language, new and outmoded music, composition in twelve tones, entertaining through composing, the relationship of heart and mind in music, evaluation of music, and other topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Philosophical Library/Open Road
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504064538
• Artikelnr.: 60468664

Autorenporträt

Jan Holcman was born in Lodz in 1922 and fled to Moscow after Germany's invasion of Poland. He studied at a conservatory with Grigory Ginsburg and began researching pianists' recordings found in the conservatory's library. In 1947, Holcman relocated to the United States after teaching and performing in Palestine under General Anders's Polish Army. He enrolled at Julliard and taught private lessons while also researching pianism. The Legacy of Chopin (1954) was Holcman's first book. His articles also appeared in newspapers like Saturday Review and Musical Courier. Holcman died in 1963 in New York. André Gide (1869-1951), winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature, was a celebrated novelist, dramatist, and essayist whose narrative works dealt frankly with homosexuality and the struggle between artistic discipline, moralism, and sensual indulgence. Born in Paris, Gide became an influential intellectual figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and culture. His essay collections Autumn Leaves and Oscar Wilde, among others, contributed to the public's understanding of key figures of the day. He traveled widely and advocated for the rights of prisoners, denounced the conditions in the African colonies, and became a voice for, and then against, communism. Other notable works include The Notebooks of André Walter (1891), Corydon (1924), If It Die (1924), The Counterfeiters, and his journals, Journal 1889-1939, Journal 1939-1942, and Journal 1942-1949. Arnold Schoenberg (13 September 1874-13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463) "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401) though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45). Schoenberg was known early in his career for successfully extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner, and later and more notably for his pioneering innovations in atonality. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside swing and jazz, as degenerate art. In the 1920s, he developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term "developing variation", and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea. Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking, and, in some cases, passionately reacted against it.