First nights : five musical premieres / Thomas Forrest Kelly.
"This book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonic fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2000.
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| Summary: | "This book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonic fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often on instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-359, 361-372), discographies (pages 341-347), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300185607 030018560X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed June 26, 2017) |