A wayfaring stranger Ernst von Dohnányi's American years, 1949-1960
From the "ramparts" of Hungarian music to emigration : Dohnányi's career -- Life as an émigré : the American period -- Representative works : Stabat Mater and American rhapsody -- Independent compositions : works for piano and flute -- Two concertos, two stories -- Epilogue : Spontane...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | California studies in 20th-century music
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Dohnányi, Ernst von
> Geschichte 1949-1960
> Pianist
> Exil
> Komponist
> Ungarn
> USA
> Hochschulschrift
> Biografie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | From the "ramparts" of Hungarian music to emigration : Dohnányi's career -- Life as an émigré : the American period -- Representative works : Stabat Mater and American rhapsody -- Independent compositions : works for piano and flute -- Two concertos, two stories -- Epilogue : Spontaneity, flexibility, adaptation -- Appendix 1. Timeline of Dohnányi's life in the United States -- Appendix 2. The main specifications of Dohnányi's American Works -- Appendix 3. Dohnányi's concerts in the United States -- Appendix 4. Dohnányi's concert repertoire in the United States "On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) embarked for the Americas, leaving Europe for good. The Hungarian musician was seventy years old, and only a few years earlier he had been a triumphant, internationally admired pianist and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. Based on a range of previously unavailable material, A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi's exceptional career and reexamines commonly held beliefs about the composer and his unique musical oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, the author adds detailed analyses of Dohnányi's late works-in most cases the first to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician's life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi's impact on European and American music and the culture of the time"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Translated by Viktória Kusz and Brian McLean |
| Beschreibung: | xxi, 233 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts, Notenbeispiele |
| ISBN: | 9780520301832 978-0-520-30183-2 |