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André Boucourechliev
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Beethoven
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The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.
Stravinsky
"Stravinsky's work, from Firebird and Le Sacre du Printemps to the Requiem Canticles, is admired by music lovers everywhere. But his art remains perplexing. No other modern composer has used such clear language, yet no other composer has aroused such conflicting passions, such violently opposed interpretations, or has gone through so many musical metamorphoses. His work strikes alliances with every epoch, and yet it stands alone in twentieth-century music: solitary, provocative, and protean. It is an astounding achievement, and in this remarkable critical biography André Boucourechliev takes us chronologically through the whole of it, analyzing the less familiar works as well as the famous ...
Chopin
In this carefully documented biography Andre Boucourechliev, himself an accomplished pianist and Professor of Musical Studies in Paris, recounts the story of Chopin's eventual life from his early years as a child prodigy in Poland to his death at the age of thirty-nine in Paris. After a series of successful concerts in Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, and Munich, Chopin went to Paris, little knowing that he was destined to live and work there for the rest of his life. When he was twenty-two he was already acknowledged in the most fashionable artistic and social circles of the era. Soon he could count among his closest friends such notable musicians as Berlioz, Rossini, and Liszt, and also many of the most noted literary figures of the times. Chopin is shown not only as a tormented human being whose life was a continuous calvary of physical and emotional agony, but as a musician who was honoured, feted and admired and never prevented by his all health from exploiting his prodigious talents to the full.
Robert Schumann
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