Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma Michael Kennedy Author
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Was Richard Strauss the most incandescent composer of the twentieth century or merely a bourgeoisie artist and Nazi sympathizer? For the fifty years since his death on September 8, 1949, … More...
Was Richard Strauss the most incandescent composer of the twentieth century or merely a bourgeoisie artist and Nazi sympathizer? For the fifty years since his death on September 8, 1949, Richard Strauss has remained dogmatically elusive in the wider body of musical and historical criticism. Lauded as nothing less than the greatest musical figure of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. As recently as 1995, the English critic Rodney Milnes wrote, the court of posterity is still reserving judgment. In Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, biographer Michael Kennedy demonstrates that the many varying shades of criticism that have painted this figure in the past half century resemble the similar understandings and misunderstandings held by his contemporariesperceptions that touched almost every aspect of Strauss' life and career. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle, Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man who resembled a prosperous bank manager; the arch-fiend of modernism and the composer who redefined the term; a man who professed to lack all spiritual curiosity and a musician who penned the touching ballet Der Kometentanz; an at times almost humble family man and an artist who claimed to be as interesting as Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Kennedy clearly elucidates his enigmatic subject by building his analysis around the few constants in Strauss' life: his profound admiration for German culture, his dependence on his own family for guidance, and his Nietzschean total absorption in art. This frame offers everyone from Straussian scholars to general readers an insightful and easy-to-follow biographical narrative. Kennedy also deals at length with Strauss' problematic relationship with Nazi authorities, detailing his incompatible roles as the father-in-law of a Jewish woman and as one of the country's leading composers. Michael Kennedy is the chief music critic of the (London) Sunday Telegraph and the author of many books about music. New Textbooks>Hardcover>Music>Music Biographies>Music Bio, Cambridge University Press Core >2 >T<
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KENNEDY, Michael 1926-2014. [ Strauss, Richard 1864-1949. ]:Richard Straus : Man, Musician, Enigma. CAMBRIDGE : 1999. HARDBACK in JACKET.
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[EAN: 9780521581738], Near Fine, [PU: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge], STRAUSS, RICHARD 1864-1949. 1864-1949 RICHARD. CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION. BIOGRAPHY. COMPOSERS GERMANY ; C… More...
[EAN: 9780521581738], Near Fine, [PU: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge], STRAUSS, RICHARD 1864-1949. 1864-1949 RICHARD. CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION. BIOGRAPHY. COMPOSERS GERMANY ; COMPOSITEURS ALLEMAGNE BIOGRAPHIES. COMPOSERS. GERMAN COMPOSERS, - 19TH CENTURY 20TH GERMANY., Jacket, CAMBRIDGE : 1999. Hardback. Illustrated. Black cloth; gilt lettered spine. In black and colour pictorial dust-jacket. Neat owner name of Alan Shackleton and blind-stamp. Two pictures from magazine tipped-in to rear blanks. No internal markings. NEAR FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (xvi), 451 pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-426). Index. CONTENTS: Kennedy deals fully with Strauss's life as leading composer and national figure in the Third Reich, during which he was both feted and cold-shouldered by the authorities. In putting this period into perspective he draws heavily on hitherto ignored material, including Strauss's own letters and diaries. In addition he reveals much about Strauss's long, happy but tempestuous marriage to the soprano Pauline de Ahna as well as tracing the important relationships to his librettists Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Gregor and Clemens Krauss. From Kennedy's probing reassessment of the man and the music, a picture emerges of a level-headed, practical and extremely versatile musician -- a great conductor as well as a great composer. Lg.8vo. **Heavy hardback. Extra postage needed out side the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping** [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]., Books<
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. Second Impression . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large Octavo. Illustrated. CAMBRIDGE : 1999. Hardback. Illustrated. Black cloth; gilt l… More...
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. Second Impression . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large Octavo. Illustrated. CAMBRIDGE : 1999. Hardback. Illustrated. Black cloth; gilt lettered spine. In black and colour pictorial dust-jacket. Neat owner name of Alan Shackleton and blind-stamp. Two pictures from magazine tipped-in to rear blanks. No internal markings. NEAR FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (xvi), 451 pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-426). Index. CONTENTS: Kennedy deals fully with Strauss's life as leading composer and national figure in the Third Reich, during which he was both feted and cold-shouldered by the authorities. In putting this period into perspective he draws heavily on hitherto ignored material, including Strauss's own letters and diaries. In addition he reveals much about Strauss's long, happy but tempestuous marriage to the soprano Pauline de Ahna as well as tracing the important relationships to his librettists Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Gregor and Clemens Krauss. From Kennedy's probing reassessment of the man and the music, a picture emerges of a level-headed, practical and extremely versatile musician -- a great conductor as well as a great composer. Lg.8vo. **Heavy hardback. Extra postage needed out side the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping** [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]., Cambridge University Press, 1999, 4<
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Kennedy, Michael:Richard Strauss
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Hardback. New. Written by Michael Kennedy, music critic for the Sunday Telegraph, this first detailed biography of Richard Strauss for many years reassesses the man and the musician, drawing on much hitherto ignored material. In particular it considers Strauss's position during the period of the Third Reich., 6<
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