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Dame Fanny Waterman: Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life in Music: Biography
Biography
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Faber Music Limited
Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life In Music tells the extraordinary story of one of th...
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Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life In Music tells the extraordinary story of one of the twentieth century???s most inspirational British women. Born into an artistic family in impoverished circumstances her prodigious musical talent and sheer determination was her passport out of hardship leading to recognition as one of the most talented young pianists of her generation. Her emergence as a visionary teacher leads to the founding of the Leeds International Piano Competition and relationships with many internationally renowned pianists whose lives she has touched through her work. Interwoven throughout the story Dame Fanny Waterman shares her inspirationalphilosophies on life learning and music and her compelling and utter passion for the Piano.
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Camille Saint-Saens 1835-1921
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A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works. Volume I: The Instrumental Works
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Keaton Henson: Accident Dancing: Biography
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Faber Music Limited
Accident Dancing is a book of poetry by artist and musician Keaton Henson, detai...
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Accident Dancing is a book of poetry by artist and musician Keaton Henson, detailing his life in fragments, from the extreme to the mundane. Accompanied by evocative pencil illustrations, it is an intimate and unapologetically personal insight into this extremely emotive artist. ?Accident Dancing is everything the way I remember it: i.e. fragmented, chaotic and often grammatically incorrect. I hope it feels authentically like a memory if nothing else. It was just something I needed to shake from my head.? - Keaton Henson
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Bruce Wood: Purcell: an Extraordinary life: Biography
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In this vivid portrait Bruce Wood illuminates the sometimes shadowy figure of Henry Purcell richly evoking the atmosphere of 17th-century England - full of intrigues and plots. By interweaving the events during an unparalleled period of social and political change with the life and music of Purcell Wood creates an account of this elusive English genius that is hard to put down.'The quality of the writing the concision colour and grittiness of the narrative sets this book apart from all others on the subject.' Professor Sir Curtis Price
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Wendy Thompson: Composer's World: Schubert: Biography
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Faber Music Limited
This superbly-illustrated biography traces Schubert's brief but astonishingly fe...
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This superbly-illustrated biography traces Schubert's brief but astonishingly fertile career against the colourful background of metternich's Vienna. Included are extracts from some of his most memorable works in simple keyboard arrangements.Composer's World is a new series of picture illustrating the life and times of the world's greatest composers. With full colour pictures words and music it places each composer's life and work within the circumstances that shaped their career.
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Jean Sibelius: Sibelius - The Orchestral Works: Reference Books: Biography
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Jean Sibelius was not only Finland's greatest composer he was one of the most d...
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Jean Sibelius was not only Finland's greatest composer he was one of the most distinctive and appealing musical voices in the first half of the twentieth century especially renowned for his characterful handling of the romantic symphony orchestra. His example has led directly to an unprecedented cultural flowering in his homeland making this small country of five million people a powerhouse in the world of classical music composition and performance. Author David Hurwitz considers more than eighty of Sibelius's orchestral pieces from songs and choruses to symphonies tone poems overtures and theatrical music inviting readers to identify and enjoy the fascinating mix ofelements that make up Sibelius's colourful personal idiom. Hurwitz also features a representative selection of the best music of Sibelius's Finnish contemporaries and successors both in the text and in one of two accompanying full-length CDs. The other CD offers a rich selection of Sibelius's music including two complete symphonies and two of his most popular tone poems. Together the CDs and text allow readers to hear Sibelius in context and gain an understanding of what distinguishes him from his contemporaries how he influenced later generations and how he came to be viewed as the musical spokesperson of the Finnish nation.
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Wendy Thompson: Composer's World: Beethoven: Biography
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Faber Music Limited
The life of this passionate controversial genius is recreated here in a lavishl...
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The life of this passionate controversial genius is recreated here in a lavishly-illustrated biography. Included are extracts from some of Beethoven's most famous works - the 3rd 5th and 9th symphonies the 'Emperor' piano concerto and the 'moonlight' sonata - in the simple keyboard arrangements.Composer's World is a series of books illustrating the life and times of the world's greatest composers. With pictures words and music it places each composer's life and work within the circumstances that shaped their career.
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Alfred Christlieb Kalischer: Beethoven's Letters: Biography
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Dover Publications
The 457 letters collected here are the most important letters in the spirit that...
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The 457 letters collected here are the most important letters in the spirit that was to shape and move a century. With explanatory notes by Dr. A. C. Kalisher.
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Wendy Thompson: Composer's World: Haydn: Biography
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Faber Music Limited
This superbly-illustrated biography brings the courtly elegant world of the eig...
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This superbly-illustrated biography brings the courtly elegant world of the eighteenth-century vividly to life and includes extracts from some of Haydn's best-loved works in simple keyboard arrangements.Composer's World is a series of books illustrating the life and times of the world's greatest composers. With pictures words and music it places each composer's life and work within the circumstances that shaped their career.
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Wendy Thompson: Composer's World: Tchaikovsky: Biography
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Faber Music Limited
The dramatic events of Tchaikovsky's controversial career are portrayed in this ...
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The dramatic events of Tchaikovsky's controversial career are portrayed in this splendidly-illustrated biography. Included are extracts in simple keyboard arrangements from some of his most popular works including the Pathetique Symphony the 1812 Overture and First Piano Concerto.Composer's World is a new series of picture illustrating the life and times of the world's greatest composers. With pictures words and music it places each composer's life and work within the circumstances that shaped their career.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Ricordi
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Claudio Monteverdi: Opera's First Master -: Reference Books
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The Musical Dramas Of Claudio Monteverdi-Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the ...
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The Musical Dramas Of Claudio Monteverdi-Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first great opera composer and is often hailed as the creator of modern music. His genius was often likened to that of Mozart Wagner and Verdi but in many of the world's opera houses hisoperas often receive an almost chilly respect far removed from the nearly universal love aroused by those later masters. This book the first layperson's guide to Monteverdi seeks to stimulate appreciation for his operas byexamining them not as musicological relics but as the vital theatrical experiences they are. Ringer places Monteverdi's operatic works within the musical and theatrical framework of his era offering a brief sketch of thecomposer's early years and detailing the complex forces that led to the emergence of opera in late sixteenth-century Florence. Opera's First Master enables opera lovers to see and hear Monteverdi's masterpieces anew whileopening new channels of inquiry into how Monteverdean opera “works” in the theater.
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Gustav Mahler: The Mahler Symphonies - An Owner's Manual: Reference Books:
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Hal Leonard
Few composers since the mid-twentieth century have escaped Mahler's influence. T...
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Few composers since the mid-twentieth century have escaped Mahler's influence. This book is the first discussion of Mahler's ten completed symphonies to offer music lovers a comprehensive overview of the music as it strikes today's listeners. The book caters to the novice as well as the expert as David Hurwitz describes what the listener will hear section by section. He explains how each work is arranged how the various parts relate to one another and how one work leads to the next. The emphasis throughout is on the experience of listening and how each symphony embodies Mahler's dictum that the symphony 'must embrace the world. It must contain everything'. Hurwitz describes the emotional extravagance that lies at the root of Mahler's popularity the consistency of his symphonic thinking and his dazzling and revolutionary use of orchestral instruments to create an expressive musical language that is varied in content and immediate in impact.
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Isaac Albeniz Portrait of a Romantic
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Oxford University Press
Isaac Albeniz Portrait of a Romantic
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Wye: Marcel Moyse un homme extraordinaire
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Leduc, Alphonse
une biographie musicale-Marcel Moyse un homme extraordinaire une biographie mus...
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une biographie musicale-Marcel Moyse un homme extraordinaire une biographie musicale. Par Wye aux éditions Leduc. Partition / Livre de chansons et théorie musicale
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Sergei Prokofiev: Prokofiev Biography (Rayment)
Biography
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Novello & Co Ltd.
Prokofiev Biography (Rayment)
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach A Life In Pictures
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Barenreiter
Bach Documents Vol. 9-What did Johann Sebastian Bach?s world look like?Which peo...
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Bach Documents Vol. 9-What did Johann Sebastian Bach?s world look like?Which people were close to him? Who did he work with?What writings document his life and work?This lavish picture book helps to bridge the 300-year historical gap and vividly brings to life Bach?s personal history.The illustrations mostly in colour present Bach?s life from his beginnings in Eisenach Ohrdruf and Lüneburg through his years as an organist in Arnstadt Mühlhausen and Weimar and his period as Kapellmeister in Cöthen to his tenure in Leipzig as music director and cantor at St. Thomas?s.Expanded legends directly explain the meaning of each picture without the reader having to refer toanother section in the book. Short introductions to the various periods of Bach?s life an essay on issues of the Bach iconography as well as a detailed Appendix round off the volume.Series Bach Documents Volume 9 /li>New Bach Edition. Revised Edition (NBA rev) 5 (Supplement)Format 469 pages; 30 5 x 25 0 cm
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Christopher Palmer: Ravel Biography (Palmer)
Biography
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Novello & Co Ltd.
Ravel Biography (Palmer)
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Dean Bye L. - Student's Guide To The Great Composers - All Instruments
Mel Bay
Media Type : Book Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 80 The third bo...
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Media Type : Book Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 80 The third book in the Student's Series is unique because it provides concise, easily understood information normally found only in large, expensive volumes. This handy-sized text includes background material on the major periods of music history, as well as interesting facts on well-known composers from each period. Excellent drawings of most composers are also included. Works well for both individual and classroom use.
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Poldiaeva, Elena : Le message de Nicolas Obouhow
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Le mystère entretenu sur la vie de Nicolas Obouhow a renforcé le mythe autour ...
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Le mystère entretenu sur la vie de Nicolas Obouhow a renforcé le mythe autour du personnage et autour de cette manière de Grand Oeuvre qu'il n'a cessé de projeter : son Livre de Vie. Il appartient à l'un des courants qualifiés de futuristes au XXe siècle, mais sa singularité exceptionnelle le relie aux figures brûlantes de l'histoire de la musique. Ayant conçu, depuis le début du XXe siècle, un système d'écriture qui préfigure certaines des conduites compositionnelles les plus novatrices (Schoenberg, Messiaen) il s'autorise, au piano aussi bien qu'à l'orchestre, des textures véritablement inouïes. Mettant en scène un instrument de son invention - la Croix sonore - des voix criées, sifflées, un pianodouble , le compositeur vise un spectacle total avec des costumes, des couleurs projetées, dans un espace qu'il avait conçu lui-même.
Il est passionnant de redécouvrir ce musicien atypique, également inscrit dans la lignée extasiée de Scriabine, qui avait le soutien de Maurice Ravel, d'Arthur Honegger et sur lequel Claude Ballif avait levé un coin du voile.
En 2004 et en 2006, deux grandes fresques symphoniques ont été créées en collaboration avec le Holland Festival - en 2007 une série de concerts à Moscou, avec les solistes Jay Gottlieb et Nina Barkalaïa consacra le retour d'exil - après tant de temps ! - de Nicolas Obouhow : une carrière posthume, comme en ont déjà connu bien d'autres compositeurs !
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Goubault, Christian : Maurice Ravel, Le Jardin Féérique
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Cet ouvrage propose une évaluation de l'?uvre complète de Maurice Ravel (1875-...
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Cet ouvrage propose une évaluation de l'?uvre complète de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Il met notamment l'accent sur la modernité d'une musique limpide et raffinée, classique d'esprit et typiquement française, dont la vogue est toujours populaire et universelle. De nombreuses analyses, des regards croisés, une centaine d'exemples commentés, des études sur le style, l'harmonie, la mélodie et l'orchestre ainsi que sur les événements majeurs de la vie de Ravel permettent de saisir la profonde unité d'un art unique, parfait et équilibré malgré sa diversité.
Car le compositeur n'a cessé d'emprunter des chemins de traverse, n'hésitant pas à se remettre en question dans le cadre de la tonalité, à créer ` contre ses succès acquis `, condensant sa pensée, clarifiant son style. L'écriture de Daphnis et Chloé n'est pas celle de la Sonate pour violon et violoncelle, des Chansons madécasses ou de L'Heure Espagnole. L'illusion et le pastiche d'une part, le goût du défi et de la répétition d'autre part, apparaissent comme les caractéristiques essentielles de son esthétique. Aussi le Boléro demeure-t-il l'?uvre emblématique de Ravel.
Evoluant en un crescendo de timbres instrumentaux au sein d'une architecture d'acier, son rythme obstiné et sa mélopée obsessionnelle mènent inexorablement à la résolution d'une énigme. Mais laquelle ?
Le musicien tente de se dissimuler derrière des masques et un jeu de miroirs, qui livrent peu à peu les mystères d'un monde féerique proche de celui de l'enfance. / Livre /
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Michel, Pierre : Györgi Ligeti
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Pour la première fois, un ouvrage entièrement consacré à la vie et aux ?uvre...
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Pour la première fois, un ouvrage entièrement consacré à la vie et aux ?uvres d'un des plus grands compositeurs modernes, à ses conceptions musicales et à son imaginaire artistique.
Avec des entretiens et des analyses de ses pièces majeures. / Livre /
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : `Rêver avec les Sons`
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Pourquoi un livre de plus sur W.A. Mozart ? Aucun artiste n?a fait couler auta...
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Pourquoi un livre de plus sur W.A. Mozart ? Aucun artiste n?a fait couler autant d?encre que Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart ? essentiellement en Allemagne et dès les années 1800 -, et l?on pourrait croire que tout a été dit sur celui qui fut, sans conteste, le compositeur-phare de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Mais la musicologie est une science qui progresse tous les jours et bien des documents ont été exhumés depuis la sortie, au siècle dernier, des ouvrages de référence sur le sujet ? comme l?indispensable «Mozart» en langue française de Jean et de Brigitte Massin (Fayard), dont la première édition date de 1958 et la dernière mise à jour de 1990. L?essai - remarquable et très technique - de Philippe A. Autexier (aux éditions Champion), l?un des plus fiables, remonte tout de même à 1987 et sa lecture ? sans parler de sa compréhension - est plutôt réservée aux musiciens et aux familiers des analyses très pointues. Quant au lumineux ouvrage de Norbert Elias: «Mozart, Sociologie d?un génie» (Le Seuil), il fut hélas interrompu par la mort de son auteur en 1990 et ne traite (avec brio) que des premières années du compositeur. Tandis que le passionnant «Requiem, au coeur de l?oeuvre ultime de Mozart» de Florence Badol-Bertrand (paru en 2006 chez Harmonia Mundi) n?est consacré, lui, qu?au tout dernier chef d??uvre du génie de Salzbourg.
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Berenguer B. - Denise Duval - Biographie
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Du Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux au Carnegie Hall de New York, en passant par l'Op...
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Du Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux au Carnegie Hall de New York, en passant par l'Opéra de Paris et les Folies Bergère, la soprano Denise Duval aura marqué toutes ses interprétations du sceau d'un engagement scénique hors du commun. Sa rencontre avec Francis Poulenc est le point de départ d'une relation humaine et artistique unique entre un compositeur et son interprète. Si le nom de Denise Duval reste indissociablement lié à celui de Poulenc, sa carrière s'est cependant développée au travers d'un très large répertoire : Manon, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Pelléas et Mélisande... Ce portrait d'une artiste, en décalage par rapport à l'image convenue de la cantatrice, est complété par un choix de lettres inédites de Francis Poulenc issues des archives de Denise Duval.
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Les grands compositeurs et leurs ?uvres - Volume 2
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Le monde des instruments des origines à nos jours, Les grands compositeurs et l...
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Le monde des instruments des origines à nos jours, Les grands compositeurs et leurs ?uvres, Le chant dans l'Histoire et dans le monde... Chacune de ces éditions pédagogiques vous offre un livre et 3 CD pour l'enseignant, ainsi qu'un livret d'application pour l'élève. Vous aurez plaisir à utiliser ces ouvrages qui présentent une information claire, accessible, structurée et globale sur le monde de la musique. Salués par la presse musicale, plébiscités par la profession, ils seront pour vous aussi d'indispensables guides pour aborder une ?uvre, une famille instrumentale, la biographie d'un musicien ou une pratique chantée? Découvrez un guide idéalement pensé pour entrer dans l?univers de la grande musique ! A la fois riche et facile d?accès, il séduira les professionnels, les enseignants mais aussi les étudiants et mélomanes.
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Les grands compositeurs et leurs ?uvres - Volume 1
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Le monde des instruments des origines à nos jours, Les grands compositeurs et l...
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Le monde des instruments des origines à nos jours, Les grands compositeurs et leurs ?uvres, Le chant dans l'Histoire et dans le monde? Chacune de ces éditions pédagogiques vous offre un livre et 3 CD pour l'enseignant, ainsi qu'un livret d'application pour l'élève. Vous aurez plaisir à utiliser ces ouvrages qui présentent une information claire, accessible, structurée et globale sur le monde de la musique. Salués par la presse musicale, plébiscités par la profession, ils seront pour vous aussi d'indispensables guides pour aborder une ?uvre, une famille instrumentale, la biographie d'un musicien ou une pratique chantée? Découvrez un guide idéalement pensé pour entrer dans l'univers de la grande musique ! A la fois riche et facile d'accès, il séduira les professionnels, les enseignants mais aussi les étudiants et mélomanes.
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Clary, Mildred : Madeleine Milhaud : Mon XXème Siècle
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Madeleine Milhaud est née en 1902. Cousine et épouse du compositeur français ...
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Madeleine Milhaud est née en 1902. Cousine et épouse du compositeur français Darius Milhaud, elle a cotoyé les plus grands représentants de la littérature, de la peinture, du théâtre et bien évidemment de la musique. Ses amis s?appelaient Cocteau, Léger, Claudel, Strawinsky, Satie, Picasso, Diaghilev ... A l?occasion de ses cent ans, celle qui fut la muse de son mari nous fait revivre ce XXème siècle qu?elle a parcouru. Elle en offre un témoignage émouvant et vivant autant qu?unique. / Livre /
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Durand, Sébastien : Gaston Litaize
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Né peu avant la Grande Guerre dans un petit village des Vosges et aveugle de naissance, Gaston Litaize (1909-1991) se passionne pour l?orgue dès son plus jeune âge avant d?entrer à l?Institution des Jeunes Aveugles puis au Conservatoire de Paris. S?il a naturellement beaucoup composé pour son instrument, il laisse aussi pour piano, choeur (cantates, messes, etc) et orchestre de nombreuses pages que sa femme écrivait sous sa dictée. Cet homme de foi est également l?un des fondateurs des émissions de musique religieuse à la radio du temps de l?ORTF et a eu ainsi une influence considérable sur le développement
de la liturgie musicale catholique dans l?esprit de Vatican II. Disciple notamment de Vierne, Dupré et Marchal, ami de Messiaen et Dutilleux, Litaize a formé toute une génération d?organistes talentueux. / Livre /
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Lebrun, Eric : Dietrich Buxtehude
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Originaire d?une famille de musiciens allemands, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) ...
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Originaire d?une famille de musiciens allemands, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) a passé son existence en Europe du Nord, entre Lübeck et Helsingborg, voyageant de Hambourg à Copenhague. Foncièrement novateur à une période charnière de l?histoire de la musique, Buxtehude apparaît aujourd?hui comme un des pères fondateurs de l?école germanique des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Son influence sur des compositeurs comme Jean-Sébastien Bach, son fils spirituel, ou Haendel, est primordiale. Célèbre par ses Abendmusiken (soirées musicales) à Lübeck, il est aussi un maître incontestable de la musique d?orgue et nous a laissé un important catalogue de plus de 200 oeuvres, dont une quarantaine de chorals. / Livre /
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Place, Adélaïde de / El Bacha, Adbel Rahman : Frédéric Chopin
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Né d?une mère polonaise et d?un père français, Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)...
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Né d?une mère polonaise et d?un père français, Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) vivra toujours sous l?influence de ses deux cultures musicales. D?une personnalité assez secrète, ce génie romantique laisse des compositions révélant une musique d?une grande noblesse qui dépeint un monde onirique et pourtant très réel. Lui parlant de sa musique, le Marquis de Custine lui disait : ?C?est vous; c?est le meilleur de vous !? Elle est en effet à l?image de son éducation stricte, tout en dessinant l?univers original d?un poète. Bien que fréquentant les salons parisiens, et mis à part sa rencontre passionnée avec George Sand, Chopin a mené une vie discrète, s?effaçant devant la soixantaine de chefs-d?oeuvre qu?il a décidé de publier de son vivant... / Livre /
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