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Gesualdo: The Man and His Music

Categorie	Componisten
Boeknummer	#419784-VH12
Titel	Gesualdo: The Man and His Music
Auteur	Watkins, Glenn
Boektype	Paperback
Druk	2e druk
Uitgeverij	Oxford : Clarendon Press
Jaar van uitgave	1991
ISBN10	0198161972
ISBN13	9780198161974
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, musical scales, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of those tendencies. Watkins's extended study of Gesualdo's life and works was originally published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis of Gesualdo's remarkable madrigals and of the few works in other genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly on the latter part of the composer's life. This new edition has been extensively updated, and contains a new chapter covering the research of recen... (Lees verder)t years. The preface to the first edition, by Igor Stravinsky is reprinted.
Pagina's	414
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 65,00

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