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Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer...

“A vivid portrait of life at the top of a podium heap…[a] fascinating memoir – a must-read for all who would gain insights into what makes a dedicated and complicated man of music tick.”--Chicago Tribune   From a small town in the south of Italy to the pinnacle of the classical music world,...

Dans un lointain avenir, les hommes se sont répandus jusqu’aux confins de notre galaxie. Mais seuls quelques rares êtres exceptionnels – d’aucuns les qualifient des psychopathes – peuvent s’aventurer au-delà : les « dorés ». Vyme et les autres qui travaillent dans la Fosse aux Etoiles...

Cinq siècles se sont écoulés depuis les guerres fratricides et l'exil d'une partie des survivants au-delà de la grande barrière d'astéroïdes. Le vaisseau d'exploration Pandora franchit la barrière pour la première fois lorsque qu'il reçoit un signal inconnu... Sunflower renoue...

NORMA - Opéra en deux actes par Vincenzo BELLINI. Livret de Felice Romani (Texte intégral FRANÇAIS - Italien). Argument, Histoire, Œuvre, Liens à YouTube Vincenzo Bellini (Biographie), eBook et PDF pour Smartphone, 120 pages,

La collection Un livret pour... donne toutes les clés pour apprécier et décrypter les opéras, pour prendre plaisir à les écouter, à les voir jouer.   En plus de la retranscription du livret intégral, chaque recueil présente...

In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice. Yang, who devoted six years...

Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture. Masterworks of George Enescu provides a profound and very detailed...

In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de...

The Politics of Verdi's Cantica treats a singular case study of the use of music to resist oppression, combat evil, and fight injustice. Cantica, better known as Inno delle nazioni / Hymn of the Nations, commissioned from Italy's foremost composer to represent the newly independent nation at the 1862...

This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the US, taking part in pioneering performances of the popular light operas of the day. Along the way she took part in many premieres, including...

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the repertoire from his day until ours. What...

Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op. 38, and how that work gave voice to the Polish cultural preoccupations of the 1830s, using musical conventions from French opera and amateur piano music. This approach provides answers to several persistent questions about the work's form, programmatic content, and poetic inspiration.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age...