The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
Sixteen essays by leading experts introduce the lay reader to issues that have concerned scholars over the past twenty years regarding Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). They provide an introduction to the composer's life and works, covering such problematic areas as his relationship to Vienna; the numerous editions of his symphonies; performing styles; and his appropriation by the Nazis during the Third Reich. They also consider the extent to which his Catholicism shaped not just his religious music but his symphonies as well.
- Considers the historical context of Austria and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Provides many different perspectives on the music, particularly the symphonies
- Contains essays by British, American and German scholars, presenting the latest critical views
Product details
September 2004Hardback
9780521804042
328 pages
254 × 178 × 19 mm
0.79kg
3 tables 36 music examples
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Table of Contents
- Chronology
- Part I. Background:
- 1. Introduction: a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck John Williamson
- 2. Musical life in Upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century Andrea Harrandt
- 3. Bruckner in Vienna Andrea Harrandt
- Part II. Choral Music:
- 4. Bruckner's large sacred compositions Paul Hawkshaw
- 5. Bruckner and the motet A. Crawford Howie
- 6. Bruckner and secular vocal music A. Crawford Howie
- Part III. The Symphonist:
- 7. The Brucknerian symphony: an overview John Williamson
- 8. Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation: the dialectic of darkness and light Derek B. Scott
- 9. Programme symphony and absolute music John Williamson
- 10. Bruckner editions: the revolution revisited Benjamin M. Korstvedt
- 11. Bruckner and the symphony orchestra Julian Horton
- 12. Between formlessness and formality: aspects of Bruckner's approach to symphonic form Benjamin M. Korstvedt
- 13. Formal process as spiritual progress: the symphonic slow movements Margaret Notley
- 14. Bruckner and Harmony Kevin Swinden
- Part IV. Reception:
- 15. Conductors and Bruckner John Williamson
- 16. The musical image of Bruckner Christa Brüstle.
