Bibliograph

Opera and the morbidity of music, Joseph Kerman

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Opera and the morbidity of music, Joseph Kerman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Opera and the morbidity of music

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Joseph Kerman

Series statement

New York Review books collections

Table Of Contents

Classical music: rise and fall, and rise -- Opera and the morbidity of music -- Two cheers for Rach 3 -- Labyrinth music -- William Byrd and the Catholics -- The operas of Monteverdi -- Bach: a short life -- A guide to the Well-tempered clavier -- Wilfrid Mellers on Bach -- Mozart: four biographies -- Mozart's last year -- Playing Mozart: the piano concertos -- The magic flute -- Sonata forms -- Beethoven: works and life -- Beethoven hero -- Text and act: Beethoven's concertos -- Three riffs on the nineth -- The romantic generation -- Schubert's songs -- Berlioz: a life -- Reading opera -- Verdi: a life -- Verdi: the late operas -- Wagner and Wagnerism -- A ring of San Francisco -- Bayreuth, 2001 -- The art of the program note -- Maria Callas (1923-1977) -- Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004)

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