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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Named Person: | Antonín Dvořák; Antonı́n Dvořák; Antonín Dvořák; Antonín Dvořák; Antonín Dvořák; Antonín Dvořák; Antonin Dvořák; Antonín Dvořák; Antonín Dvořák |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Brim Beckerman |
ISBN: | 0691033862 9780691033860 0691000972 9780691000978 |
OCLC Number: | 27937811 |
Description: | x, 284 : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Reversing the critical tradition: innovation, modernity, and ideology in the work and career of Antonín Dvořák / Leon Botstein -- Dvořák and Brahms: a chronicle, an interpretation / David Beveridge -- Dvořák and the New World: a concentrated moment / Joseph Horowitz -- Dvořák: the operas / Jan Smaczny -- The master's little joke: Antonín Dvořák and the mask of nation / Michael Beckerman -- Reviews and criticisms from Dvořák's American years: artices 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Krehbiel, James Huneker, H.L. Mencken, and James Creelman -- Letters from Dvořák's American period: a selection of unpublished correspondence received by Dvořák in the United States -- Antonín Dvořák: a biographical sketch / Herman Krigar ; translated by Susan Gillespie ; with critical commentary by Jarmil Burghauser -- Dvořák in the Czech press: unpublished reviews and criticism / translated by Tatiana Firkušný -- A discussion of two tone poems based on texts by Karel Jaromir Erben: The wood dove and The golden spinning wheel / Leoš Janáček ; translated by Tatiana Firkušný. |
Series Title: | Bard Music Festival series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Michael Beckerman. |
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"The image of the composer Antonin Dvorak as a Czech visionary who ventured into the exotic cultural habitat of nineteenth century America is brilliantly portrayed... The five critical essays which make up the first part of the book create a multifaceted portrait of the composer within the musical vanguard of Prague and New York."--Slavic Review Read more...
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