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Brahms and His World
As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his significant career. In Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary, author Peter Clive provides extensive and up-to-date information on the composer's personal and professional association with some 430 persons. These persons include relatives, friends, acquaintances, and physicians; fellow musicians and composers whom Brahms particularly admired and in the editions of whose works he was involved; conductors, instrumentalists, and singers who took part in notable or first performances of his works; poets whose texts he set to music; pub...
Musical Courier
Vols. for 1957-61 include an additional (mid-January) no. called Directory issue, 1st-5th ed. The 6th ed. was published as the Dec. 1961 issue.
Queer Lives across the Wall
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.
Adolf Busch
Revised edition: Adolf Busch (1891-1952) was an all-round musician and a moral beacon in troubled times. As first violin of the Busch String Quartet, founded in 1912, he was the greatest quartet-player of the last century and he led a famous conductorless orchestra, the Busch Chamber Players. He was also the busiest solo violinist of the inter-War years, regularly performing major concertos with such conductors as Nikisch, Toscanini, Weingartner, Walter, Furtwängler, Boult, Wood, Barbirolli and his elder brother Fritz. He was, moreover, an outstanding composer whose works enjoyed performances in Germany and further afield. Frequently he appeared as soloist and composer in the same concert. ...
Keep These Letters, Please!
A selection of 41 letters out of the complete collection which comprises 197 letters and postcards, and two hand-written poetical texts. The most by far are addressed to Hendrik Freijer, the administrator of Het concertgebouw N.V. The letters cover Freijer's tenure from 1905 to 1922, and give an insight into the way in which an institution like the Concertgebouw and its Orchestra operated, and into the job of administrator at the time.
Edwin Fischer (1886–1960) – Pianist, Dirigent, Musikpädagoge
Der Schweizer Edwin Fischer (1886–1960) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Pianisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine seiner herausragendsten Leistungen war die erste Gesamteinspielung von Bachs "Wohltemperiertem Klavier" in den 1930er Jahren. Mit seinen "blutvollen" Interpretationen der Werke Bachs, Beethovens, Mozarts und Brahms' feierte er einst große Erfolge. Sein Credo: Musik ist eine Sprache des Herzens. Edwin Fischer war jedoch nicht nur Pianist, er dirigierte und komponierte auch, außerdem edierte und bearbeitete er Musikwerke. Der Enkelschüler Franz Liszts war zudem einer der großen Klavierpädagogen seiner Zeit: In rund 50 Jahren bildete er zahlreiche Pianistinnen und Pianisten aus – darunter Alfred Brendel, Paul Badura-Skoda und Daniel Barenboim. Im Zentrum dieser ersten wissenschaftlichen Biographie über Edwin Fischer steht das Leben des Musikers: Worin liegen die Gründe für den einst so großen Erfolg? Was machte seine Künstlerpersönlichkeit aus? Wie konnte er derart in Vergessenheit geraten? Die vorliegende Biographie lädt zu einer intensiven Spurensuche an den drei zentralen Lebensorten des Musikers ein: Basel – Berlin – Luzern.
Franz Wüllner
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