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The Red Countess
Praise for the first edition of this book: This translation is something of an event. For the first time, it makes Zur Mühlen’s text available to English-speaking readers in a reliable version. —David Midgley, University of Cambridge [This book] represents exceptional value, both as an enjoyable read and as an introduction to an attractive author who amply deserves rediscovery. —Ritchie Robertson, Journal of European Studies, 42(1): 106-07. Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles ...
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven (Vol. 1-3)
Alexander Wheelock Thayer's 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' is a monumental three-volume biography that delves deep into the personal and professional life of the legendary composer. Thayer's meticulous research and comprehensive documentation provide readers with a detailed account of Beethoven's trials and triumphs, offering insights into his revolutionary compositions and enduring legacy. Written in a scholarly but approachable style, this biography sheds light on Beethoven's complex personality and the social and cultural context in which he created his immortal music. Thayer's work is not only a biography but also a valuable historical and artistic resource for anyone interested in c...
The Course of German Nationalism
The arduous path from the colourful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through revolutions, wars and economic upheavals, but also through the cultural splendour of German Classicism and Romanticism. Hagen Schulze takes a fresh look at late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German history, explaining it as the interaction of revolutionary forces from below and from above, of economics, politics, and culture. None of the results were predetermined, and yet their outcome was of momentous significance for all of Europe, if not the world.
Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets
The first detailed contextual study of Beethoven's middle-period quartets, encompassing reception history, early performance practices, aesthetic contexts and theatrical impetus.
The End and the Beginning
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she ...
The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries
Compiled here are reviews, reports, notes, and essays found in German-language periodicals published between 1783 and 1830. The documents are translated into English with copious notes and annotations, an introductory essay, and indexes of names, subjects, and works. This volume contains a general section and documents on specific opus numbers up to opus 54, with musical examples redrawn from the original publications. ø The collection brings to light contemporary perceptions of Beethoven?s music, including matters such as audience, setting, facilities, orchestra, instruments, and performers as well as the relationship of Beethoven?s music to theoretical and critical ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, present a wide spectrum of insights into the perceptions that Beethoven?s contemporaries had of his monumental music.
Golo Mann
Golo Mann war als Historiker, Literat und Figur der öffentlichen Meinung einer der meist beachteten Intellektuellen der Bundesrepublik. In unzähligen Zeitungsartikeln, Radio- und Fernsehsendungen hat er Position ergriffen und mit seinen Büchern ein Millionenpublikum erobert. Seine umfassende Tätigkeit wird hier zum ersten Mal systematisch aufgearbeitet und in einer detaillierten Bibliographie dargelegt, die alle Teile von Manns Schaffen berücksichtigt, sogar Unveröffentlichtes aus dem Schweizerischen Literaturarchiv. Die von Klaus W. Jonas und Holger R. Stunz herausgegebene Bibliographie versammelt Monographien, Übersetzungen und Artikel aus der Feder Golo Manns sowie eine repräsentative Auswahl an Schrifttum über ihn. Durch einen ausführlichen biographischen Abriss und vier umfangreiche Register ist ein vernetztes Recherchieren möglich. Ein Vorwort des Thomas Mann-Bibliographen K.W. Jonas schildert den spannenden Werdegang des Buches, zu dem Golo Mann ein Vorwort beisteuerte und das auch beider Briefwechsel wiedergibt.
