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Games of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Games of the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World

Prophets Without Honour is a collective biography set in an extraordinary epoch of cultural history sometimes called “the Weimar Renaissance.” In a series of mini-portraits, Grunfeld has written a tribute to the German-speaking scientists, musicians, writers and artists who created European cultural life in the early twentieth century. All were evicted or murdered by the Nazis. Albert Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, and Franz Kafka are the best-known of his subjects but Grunfeld includes such lesser-known figures as Else Lasker-Schüler, Ernst Toller, Gertrud Kolmar, Alfred Döblin, Erich Mühsam, Carl Sternheim, Kurt Tucholsky and Hermann Broch. Grunfeld summari...

Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Music

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The French Kings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The French Kings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

With abundant photographs of artifacts from the periods covered in this volume on the history of France and the men who shaped it from the time of Charlemagne to the reign of Louis XVI (1754-1793) - the events, culture and in particular the art treasures (incld. sculpture, pottery, painting, architecture, ornaments = jewelry, utensils, etc.) of the French are fully discussed.

The Hitler File
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

The Hitler File

A pictorial record, with accompanying text, of German society, culture, and politics, from the Weimar Republic to Hitler's last public appearence, detailing the rise of Nazism and Hitler's public and private lives

The Flamencos of Cádiz Bay
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

The Flamencos of Cádiz Bay

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This work deals with flamenco music and musicians.

Wild Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Wild Spain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989-01-01
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  • Publisher: Wiley

Grunfeld writes here with style and perception about the mountains, the deserts, the wild Mediterranean coasts and the remote green valleys of Galicia, bringing alive the beauty of the country and the glorious diversity of its wildlife from eagles to flamingos, from chamois to wild cats and wolves. Maps and indexes. 210 photos, 110 in color.

Opera Production
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Opera Production

Opera Production was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Designed particularly as a reference work for opera producers, students, performers, and writers, this book provides basic production information about more than 500 operas. Anyone planning to produce an opera will find here the essential information he needs in order to judge whether a given opera is appropriate to his resources for production. Information for individual operas is given concerning the number and importance of settings; size of orchestra, cho...

Rodin: A Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 901

Rodin: A Biography

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was not only the world’s greatest sculptor, known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others, but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times: an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments; a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous relationships (among others, with Camille Claudel); and a friend to the most gifted writers and artists of his day. “A consistently absorbing story... Mr. Grunfeld is primarily concerned with setting out — insofar as they can be separated from the art — the facts of the sculptor’s life, and within his chosen limits he has written a...

Julian Bream
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Julian Bream

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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