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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Goffredo Petrassi, Howard Hanson, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Bohuslav Martinů, Werner Janssen, Leon Kirchner, Elliott Carter, Lukas Foss, David Del Tredici, Roger Sessions, Gail Kubik, Aaron Jay Kernis, Salvatore Martirano, Earle Brown, Rand Steiger. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Goffredo Petrassi (Zagarolo, Province de Rome, 16 juillet 1904 - Rome, 3 mars 2003) est un compositeur italien. Il est diplômé du Conservatoire de Rome, au début des années 30, en composition et orgue. Avec Partita per orchestra en 1932 - considérée comme repère de sa période néoclassique - Petrassi obtient la renommée internationale, en gagnant l'année suivante le premier prix au festival de musique contemporaine du Syndicat national des musiciens. Au milieu des années 30, démarre la phase du baroque romain, lorsque Petrassi, au moment des innovations de Stravinski, Hindemith, Malipiero et Casella, s'intéresse à la musique du siècle et du siècle, avec des œuvres fortement influencées par l'art baroque romain, comme Salmo IX, Magnificat et Quatre Hymnes sacrés. Dans cette perspective on peut inscrire l'utilisation du clavecin, instrument auquel Petrassi, comme plusieurs autres compositeurs contemporains, a donné une nouvelle vie après l'oubli souffert pendant le siècle. Ensuite, à partir du Chœur de morts composé au début de la guerre sur une poésie de Giacomo Leopardi et le Dialogue de Federico Ruysch, l'attitude de Petrassi se fait plus libre et autonome en s'approchant au filon expressionniste et atonal. Ce parcours culmine dans la série des huit Concertos pour orchestre composés sur une période de quarante ans, de 1934 à 1972, dans lesquels on observe le passage graduel des influences initiales de Stravinski à...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Tom Stoppard, Miloš Forman, Milan Kundera, Anton Cermak, Ferdinand Peroutka, Bohuslav Martinů, Martina Navratilova, Mašín, Mila Rechcigl, Rafael Kubelík, Jan Hammer, Karel Husa, Salo Flohr, Jan Matulka, Jiří Březina, Hugo Bezdek, Jaromír Weinberger, Peter Glaser, Max Brod, Stanislav Grof, Zdeněk Zeman, Rudolf Friml, Janet Malcolm, John Neumann, Johann Stamitz, Hans Kelsen, David Zeisberger, Lubomir Kavalek, Jan Šejna, Jan Beneš, Vilém Flusser, Emil Wolf, Karel Kryl, Jaroslav Ježek, Wenceslaus Hollar, Čestmír Vycpálek, Karel Krautgartner, Isaiah Horowitz, Karel Reisz, Miroslava Stern, Miloslav Rechcigl, Sr., Vera Ralston, Karl Stefan, Aleš Hrdlička, Chaviva Hošek, Ernst Tugendhat, Maria Jelinek, Václav Nedomanský, Richard Konkolski, Václav Nelhýbel, Albin Polasek, Jiří Mucha, Anny Ondra, Avigdor Dagan, Adolph J. Sabath, Jan Křesadlo, Jan Tříska, Rudolph Ruzicka, Antonín Tučapský, Eduard Ingris, Antonín Kubálek, George Brady, Frank Plicka, Pavel Tigrid, Ota Ulč, Antonin Kratochvil, Frederick Jelinek, Jiří Vaněk, Ludvík Aškenazy, Jiří Horák, Lea Vivot, Ivan Passer, Jana Sterbak, Josef Stejskal, Olga Schoberová, Karel Soucek, Alfréd Radok, Josef Dessauer, Marianne Kinzel, Tomáš Krystlík, Zdeněk Kopal, Emanuel Viktor Voska, Jan Hajek, Jaromír Krejcar, Vaclav Zizler, Luděk Frýbort. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 349. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Miriam Stoppard (1972-1992) Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL (born 3 July 1937) is an influential British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=30387 ... Read more

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Title: Bohuslav Martinu: The Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra 2-4.(Sound recording review)
Author: Petr Veber
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bohuslav Martin (Czech pronunciation: ) (December 8, 1890, Polika, Bohemia August 28, 1959) was a prolific Bohemian Czech composer, who wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martin left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. In the 1930s he experimented with expressionism and constructivism, and became an admirer of current European technical developments, exemplified by his orchestral works Half-time and La Bagarre. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his Kuchyské revue ("Kitchen Revue"). Of the post-war avant-garde styles, neo-classicism influenced him the most. He continued to use Czech and Moravian folk melodies throughout his oeuvre, usually nursery rhymesfor instance in Otvírání studánek ("The Opening of the Wells"). He emigrated to the United States in 1941, fleeing the German invasion of France. Although as a composer he was successful in America, receiving many commissions, he became homesick for Czechoslovakia. He never returned to his native country, and he died in Switzerland. The church tower where Martin was born and lived his youngest yearsMartin was born in a church tower in Polika, Bohemia, where his father (a shoemaker) was a watchman. As a child he developed a local reputation, giving his first public concert in his hometown in 1905. In 1906 he became a violin student at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied briefly before being dismissed for "incorrigible negligence". He continued his studies on his own. He spent the First World War in his home t... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=174005 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gustav Mahler, Antonín Dvořák, Václav Prokop Diviš, Bohuslav Martinů, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bernard Bolzano, Tomáš Rosický, Karel Schwarzenberg, Karel Poborský, Emil Hácha, Vladimír Hirsch, Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino, Jan Sokol, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Karel Kryl, Petr Eben, Luděk Pachman, Vladimír Holan, Josef Dobrovský, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Libor Kozák, Albin Polasek, Radovan Lukavský, František Tůma, Václav Benda, Bohuslav Reynek, Bohuslav Balbín, Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, Peter Georg Niger, Jan Čep, Pavel Tigrid, Jan Zahradníček, Tomáš Halík, Josef Václav Myslbek, Adam Václav Michna Z Otradovic, František Bublan, Jiří Grygar, Jaroslav Durych, Jiří Mašek, Marek Eben, Rudolf Medek, Jan Tesánek, Mikuláš Medek. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 195. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 18 May 1911) was an Austrian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Born in humble circumstances, Mahler showed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=65174 ... Read more

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Title: "Music for me is the idea of light" a view of the life and music of Bohuslav Martinu.(history)(Biography)
Author: Lucie Berna
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Title: Bohuslav Martinu.(reviews)(Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor H.327, No. 3 in C major H.332, Cinq pieces breves (Piano trio No. 1 H.193), Bergerettes H.275)(Sound recording review)
Author: Lubos Stehlik
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
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Chapters: Czech Roman Catholics, Gustav Mahler, Antonín Dvořák, Václav Prokop Diviš, Bohuslav Martinů, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bernard Bolzano, Tomáš Rosický, Karel Schwarzenberg, Karel Poborský, Emil Hácha, Vladimír Hirsch, Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino, Jan Sokol, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Karel Kryl, Petr Eben, Luděk Pachman, Vladimír Holan, Josef Dobrovský, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Libor Kozák, Albin Polasek, Radovan Lukavský, František Tůma, Václav Benda, Bohuslav Reynek, Bohuslav Balbín, Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, Peter Georg Niger, Jan Čep, Pavel Tigrid, Jan Zahradníček, Tomáš Halík, Josef Václav Myslbek, Emmanuel Korab, Adam Václav Michna Z Otradovic, František Bublan, Jiří Grygar, Jaroslav Durych, Jiří Mašek, Marek Eben, Rudolf Medek, Jan Tesánek, Mikuláš Medek. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 189. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 18 May 1911) was an Austrian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Born in humble circumstances, Mahler showed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera ho...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=65174 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Antonín Dvořák, Viktor Ullmann, Petr Eben, Jiří Válek, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů, Zdeněk Fibich, Bedřich Smetana, Oskar Nedbal, Josef Mysliveček, Oldřich František Korte, Hans Krása, Miloslav Kabeláč, Jan Hammer, Antonín Kraft, Julius Ernest Wilhelm Fučík, Jiří Antonín Benda, Gideon Klein, Johannes Wenzeslaus Kalliwoda, Antoine Reicha, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Pavel Haas, Vladimír Hirsch, Ignaz Moscheles, František Kmoch, Vítězslav Novák, Josef Páleníček, Eduard Nápravník, François-Xavier Richter, Viktor Kalabis, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Carl Stamitz, Josef Suk, Paul Wranitzky, Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek, Antonio Rosetti, Jan Novák, Karel Svoboda, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Erwin Schulhoff, Václav Pichl, František Tůma, Jean-Baptiste Vanhal, Leopold Anton Kozeluch, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Franz Krommer, Rudolf Karel, František Brixi, Alois Hába, Anton Wranitzky, Johann Stamitz, Johann Antonin Kozeluch, Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, Markéta Irglová, Josef Reicha, Gottfried Finger, Johann Anton Losy Von Losimthal, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Franz Koczwara, Pavel Smutný. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Viktor Ullmann (né le 1 janvier 1898 à Teschen, Autriche-Hongrie, aujourd'hui Český Těšín, Tchéquie - mort gazé le 18 octobre 1944 à Auschwitz-Birkenau) était pianiste et compositeur tchèque (autrichien selon d'autres sources). Issus de familles juives, ses parents s'étaient convertis avant sa naissance à la religion catholique. Son père Maximilian a pu, en tant que juif converti, entreprendre une carrière d'officier. Pendant la Première guerre mondiale, il devint colonel et fut anobli. Viktor fréquenta à partir de 1909 un lycée de Vienne en Autriche. Ses aptitudes et son inclinaison pour la...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Erich Kleiber, Bohuslav Martinů, Rafael Kubelík, Vítězslav Novák, Jiří Bělohlávek, Ludvík Čelanský, Petr Kotik, Eugen Suchoň, Jan Kubelík, Eva Likova, Karel Ančerl, Jaroslav Ježek, Petr Eben, Václav Talich, Naděžda Kniplová, Jana Jonášová, Jan Hřímalý, Jana Sýkorová, Jaroslav Souček, Otakar Ševčík, Karel Šejna, Václav Smetáček, Kateřina Jalovcová, Marie Podvalová, Antonín Švorc, Franz Simandl, Pavel Kohout, Daniel Hůlka, Dagmar Pecková, Josef Suk, Václav Neumann, Otakar Jeremiáš, Václav Rabas, Rudolf Komorous. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Rafael Jeroným Kubelík (29 June 1914 11 August 1996) was a Czech conductor and composer. Kubelík was born in Býchory, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, today's Czech Republic. He was the sixth child of the Bohemian violinist Jan Kubelík, whom the younger Kubelík described as "a kind of god to me." Rafael Kubelík studied violin with his father, and later violin, composition, and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. He graduated from the conservatory in 1933, at the age of 19; at his graduation concert he played a Paganini concerto and a composition of his own for violin and orchestra. Kubelík was also an accomplished pianist, and served as his father's piano accompanist on a tour of the United States in 1935. In 1939, Rafael Kubelík became music director of the Brno Opera, a position he held until the Nazis shut the company down on 12 November 1941. The Nazis allowed the Czech Philharmonic to continue operating, and Kubelík became its principal conductor. (He had first conducted the Czech Philharmonic in 1934 when he was 20 years old.) In 1944, after various incidents, including one in which he declined to greet the Nazi Reich-Protector with a Hitler salute along with his refusal to conduct Wagner during the War Kub...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=317945 ... Read more

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Title: A music-political confession Bohuslav Martinu's Memorial to Lidice.(history)(Critical essay)
Author: Petra Richter
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2008
Publisher: Czech Music Information
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Juliette ou La Clé Des Songes, Quatuors à Cordes de Martinů, Symphonies de Bohuslav Martinů, Loutky, Sonate Pour Piano de Martinů, Études et Polkas de Martinů, Fresky Piero Della Francesca, Préludes de Martinů, Fantaisie et Toccata de Martinů, Double Concerto Pour Cordes, Piano et Timbales, Mémorial Pour Lidice, Les Fresques de Piero Della Francesca. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Juliette ou la clé des songes est un opéra en trois actes du compositeur tchèque Bohuslav Martinů, qui réalisa le livret en s'inspirant de la pièce de théâtre du même nom du poête surréaliste Georges Neveux. Il fut joué pour la première fois le 16 mars 1938 au Théâtre national de Prague sous la direction de Václav Talich. Il existe dans une version française (originale) et dans une version tchèque. Une version anglaise a été réalisée dans les années 1970 pour une première en avril 1978 à Londres par la New Opera Company. L'écriture de l'opéra fut inspirée à Martinů par la lecture de la pièce de Georges Neveux, Juliette ou la clé des songes. La pièce, montée en 1930, créa un certain scandale car très marquée par les idées des surréalistes auxquels Neveux appartenait, avec par exemple le culte de la femme à travers Juliette. Résidant alors à Paris, Martinů n'assista cependant probablement pas à la pièce. Elle fut jouée dès 1934 à Prague mais ce ne fut qu'à la lecture de la pièce dans une revue littéraire que Martinů décida de l'adapter pour en faire un opéra. Il entama l'écriture de l'opéra le 17 mai 1936 et y consacra près d'un an jusqu'au 24 janvier 1937. Initialement détenteur des droits, Kurt Weill lui laissa entièrement la place et Martinů adapta la pièce, la traduisit en tchèque et composa la musique. Pour obten...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Bohuslav Martinu.(Sound recording review)
Author: Petr Veber
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Czech Music Information
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The 121 letters collected in this book document Martinu's life in his own words, beginning as a student in Prague and Paris, following his flight from Nazi-occupied France and charting his triumphs in American exile; the last letter is dated shortly before his death in 1959. They are addressed to his family and friends back home in the village of Policka, on the Czech-Moravian border. Kept at a distance by the Nazi occupation and then by Communism, Martinu was never to return there but, in a letter to the mayor, written as a gesture of solidarity after August 1938, he proudly described himself as a 'native son who is far from his home but who constantly returns - if only in his thoughts - with gladness - to that dear land - the most beautiful on earth.' ... Read more