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Daniel-Lesur ou l'itinéraire d'un musicien du XXe siècle (1908-2002)
Ce livre retrace le parcours de Daniel-Lesur. Compositeur, pianiste, organiste, critique musical, administrateur de l'Opéra de Paris, professeur puis Directeur de la Schola Cantorum, sa personnalité a marqué de façon indéniable toute la vie musicale de la seconde moitié du siècle dernier. Son émission radiophonique "les Nouvelles musicales" dans les années 50 était l'émission préférée des mélomanes français.
L'œuvre de Daniel-Lesur
Fils de la compositrice Alice R. Lesur, élève puis suppléant de Charles Tournemire à l'orgue de Sainte-Clotilde, camarade d'Olivier Messiaen au Conservatoire de Paris et professeur de Maurice Ohana à la Schola Cantorum, Daniel-Lesur (1908-2002) a participé de près aux aventures musicales de son temps, en marge des avant-gardes. Depuis les concerts collectifs d'orgue à Paris jusqu'à la création du groupe jeune France avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, du développement de la musique de film au journalisme musical à la radio et à la télévisison dans les années 1950, sans oublier la composition de plus de deux cents oeuvres dont trois opéras, cet ouvrage permet de découvrir l'it...
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Visions of Amen
French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908 1992) is probably best known for his Quartet for the End of Time, premiered in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. However, Messiaen was a remarkably complex, intelligent person with a sometimes tragic domestic life who composed a wide range of music. This book explores the enormous web of influences in the early part of Messiaen's long life. The first section of the book provides an intellectual biography of Messiaen's early life in order to make his (difficult) music more accessible to the general listener. The second section offers an analysis of and thematic commentaries on Messiaen's pivotal work for two pianos, Visions of Amen, composed in 1943. Schloesser's analysis includes timing indications corresponding to a downloadable performance of the work by accomplished pianists Stphane Lemelin and Hyesook Kim.
Music for Piano and Orchestra
Suitable for all admirers of the piano, this work brings together more than 3,000 works for piano and orchestra. It comes with a supplement containing over 200 new entries.
Poulenc
An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music Francis Poulenc is a key figure in twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although associated with five other French composers in what came to be called “Les Six”, Poulenc was very much sui generis in personality and in his music, where he excelled over a wide repertoire—opera, songs, ballet scores, chamber works, piano pieces, sacred and secular choral works, orchestral works and concertos. This book fully covers this wide range, while also describing the vicissitudes of Poulenc's life and the many important relationships he had with major figures such as Satie, Ravel, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Cocteau and others.
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
This new compact guide to the history and performance of music is both authoritative and a pleasure to use. With entries drawn and condensed from the widely acclaimed The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and its companion The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, it is a dependable reference for home and classroom and for professional and amateur musicians. This concise dictionary offers definitions of musical terms; succinct characterizations of the various forms of musical composition; entries that identify individual operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. Like its distinguished parent volumes, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides information on all periods in music history, with particularly comprehensive coverage of the twentieth century. Clearly written and based on vast expertise, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an invaluable handbook for everyone who cares about music.
Charles Munch
A mesmerizing figure in concert, Charles Munch was celebrated for his electrifying public performances. He was a pioneer in many arenas of classical music--establishing Berlioz in the canon, perfecting the orchestral work of Debussy and Ravel, and leading the world to Roussel, Honegger, and Dutilleux. This is the first full biography of a giant of twentieth-century music, tracing his dramatic survival in occupied Paris, his triumphant arrival at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his later years, when he was a leading cultural figure in the United States, a man known and admired by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
