Fabian Huss

The Music of Frank Bridge (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed and long-overdue study of Frank Bridge's music and its socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts

The English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists in British music, developing the most radical and lastingly modern musical languageof his generation. Bridge was also one of the most accomplished British composers of chamber music in the twentieth century. After the lyrical romanticism of the early period, a notable expansion of style can be observed as earlyas 1913, leading eventually to the radical language of the Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet, drawing on influences such as Debussy, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School composers.However, Bridge became frustrated that his later, more complex music was often ignored in favour of his earlier 'Edwardian' works; this neglect of his mature music contributed to the growing obscurity into which his music and reputation fell in his last years and afterhis death. Symptomatically, Bridge is still often remembered primarily for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge' (1937).This book, the first detailed, and long-overdue, study of Bridge's music and its relevant socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts, encourages a more thorough understanding of Bridge's style and development and will appeal to readers with interests in British music, early twentieth-century modernism and post-romanticism as well as genre and style.

FABIAN HUSS is Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol and has published widely on British music (particularly EJ Moeran), with an emphasis on cultural history, and aesthetic and analytical issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782046103
• Artikelnr.: 56164057

Autorenporträt

Fabian Huss

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Background, Royal College of Music and Early Works First
Maturity Transitional Period Bridge's Post-Tonal Idiom; Piano Sonata and
Third String Quartet Interlude: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Progressive
Works, 1927-1932 Interlude: Benjamin Britten Last Years List of Works
Bibliography