Author:
Einstein, Alfred, 1880-1952.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, [1956]
Description265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Fictions that have shaped musical history -- Mortality of opera -- Early concert life -- Opus I -- Opus ultimum -- Words and music -- Some musical representations of the Temperaments -- The Elizabethan madrigal and Musica Transalpina -- Abbot Angelo Grillo's letters as source material for music history -- Agostino Steffani -- On certain manuscripts of Mozart -- Mozart and Tarchi -- A King Tehodore opera -- Mozart and Shakespeare's The Tempest -- The first performance of Mozart's Entführung in London -- The first libretto of Don Giovanni -- Mozart's Adelaide concerto -- Haydn, Mozart, and English sea heroes -- Beethoven's military style -- Strauss and Hofmannsthal -- Wagner and Ludwig II.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references
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