The European symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930 : Germany and the Nordic countries / A. Peter Brown.

Author: Brown, A. Peter.

Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Descriptionxxxv, 1103 p., 22 p. of plates : ill., music ; 26 cm.

Note:Section one. The German classic/romantic symphony from ca. 1800 to 1857 -- After Beethoven : Leipzig as the epicenter of the symphony -- The symphonies of Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner : two symphonic composers turn to opera -- The symphonies of Louis Spohr -- The symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- The symphonies of Robert Schumann -- Section two. The symphony in northern Europe -- The symphony in nineteenth-century Sweden -- The symphony in Norway -- The symphony in Denmark from ca. 1830 to ca. 1925 -- The symphony in Finland from ca. 1850 to 1936 -- section three. The avant-garde/new school symphonists -- Hector Berlioz -- Franz Liszt -- Joachim Raff -- Richard Strauss.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 1031-1074) and indexes.

Note:The third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown takes as its topic the European symphony ca. 1800-ca. 1930 and is divided into two parts. Brown's series synthesises an enormous amount of scholarly literature in a wide range of languages.

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