The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

Robert Philip

Robert Philip

The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

Yale University Press | 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300242720

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An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950

Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader.

Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composer’s intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.

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Robert Philip was a senior lecturer in music at the Open University, and is a well-known presenter on BBC Radio. He is the award-winning author of Performing Music in the Age of Recording and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Introduction Free access PDF PDF	xiii
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Mily Balakirev (1837–1910) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	18
Samuel Barber (1910–81) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	22
Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	27
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	49
Alban Berg (1885–1935) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	86
Hector Berlioz (1803–69) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	90
Georges Bizet (1838–75) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	103
Alexander Borodin (1833–87) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
Johannes Brahms (1833–97) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	110
Benjamin Britten (1913–76) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	136
Max Bruch (1838–1920) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	144
Anton Bruckner (1824–96) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	150
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	175
Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin (1810–49) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	177
Aaron Copland (1900–90) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	182
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	190
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	200
Frederick Delius (1862–1934) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	213
Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	216
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	239
Manuel De Falla (1876–1946) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	263
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	266
César Franck (1822–90) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	271
George Gershwin (1898–1937) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	276
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–57) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	285
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	287
George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel) (1685–1759) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	295
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	310
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	360
Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	366
Charles Ives (1874–1954) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	371
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	379
Franz Liszt (1811–86) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	382
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	393
Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	446
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	449
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	461
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	468
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	472
Modest Musorgsky (1839–81) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	544
Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	553
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	566
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	594
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	613
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	632
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	636
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	638
Erik Satie (1866–1925) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	646
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	651
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	661
Robert Schumann (1810–56) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	677
Alexander Scriabin (Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin) (1872–1915) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	692
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	697
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	721
Bedřich Smetana (1824–84) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	753
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	758
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	774
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	803
Michael Tippett (1905–98) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	841
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	845
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	848
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	867
Richard Wagner (1813–83) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	880
William Walton (1902–83) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	883
Carl Maria Von Weber (1786–1826) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	889
Anton Webern (1883–1945) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	893
Endnotes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	902
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	920

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