Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works

Chris Walton

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Othmar Schoeck

Life and Works

Chris Walton

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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Volume 65 | Eastman Studies in Music

About this book

Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.

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Walton Chris :

CHRIS WALTON taught music history at the Basel University of Music in Switzerland, is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University in South Africa) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Musical Examples Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction: Schoeck and the Swiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Childhood and Youth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter Two. Wolf amidst the Sheep Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter Three. Leipzig, Munich, and an Awful Little Moustache Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Chapter Four. Back in the Fold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Chapter Five. Hermann Hesse, via the Dentist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter Six. Look Back in Melancholy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter Seven. Chamber Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter Eight. The Art of Counterpoint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Nine. Busoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter Ten. The Picture on the Wall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter Eleven. Touch of Venus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter Twelve. Silent Bronze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter Thirteen. Sucking Sweet Folly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter Fourteen. Self Portrait, with Sandwich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter Fifteen. Elegy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter Sixteen. Goodbye to Geneva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter Seventeen. The Bee in the Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter Eighteen. Raging Queen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter Nineteen. Storms in the Pigeon Loft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter Twenty. Into the Vortex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter Twenty-One. Wrong-Note Rag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter Twenty-Two. Hildebill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Chapter Twenty-Three. Variations and Fugue on an Age-Old Theme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter Twenty-Four. Put to the Wheel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Chapter Twenty-Five. Gisela Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter Twenty-Six. Lost in the Stars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Chapter Twenty-Seven. Whores and Madonnas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter Twenty-Eight “. . . he can write music all right . . .” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Chapter Twenty-Nine. Tea with (Ms.) Hitler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Chapter Thirty. Aryanizing Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter Thirty-One. Arms and the Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Chapter Thirty-Two. Castles in the Air Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Chapter Thirty-Three. Goering’s Bullshit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Chapter Thirty-Four. Collapse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Chapter Thirty-Five. The People at Home Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter Thirty-Six. The Reckoning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Chapter Thirty-Seven. Transfigured Summer Nights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter Thirty-Eight. Silent Lights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Chapter Thirty-Nine. Fair Measure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Chapter Forty. Rather Nice Horn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Chapter Forty-One. Sleepless in Wollishofen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Chapter Forty-Two. Echoes and Elegies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Chapter Forty-Three. Running on Empty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Othmar Schoeck: Concise Work Catalogue and Discography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413

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eBook published on:

September 15, 2009

eBook ISBN:

9781580467308

Original publisher:

University of Rochester Press

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

457

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19 b/w, 37 line illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781580467308

eBook ISBN: 9781580467308

Keywords for this book

Othmar Schoeck; Swiss Composer; Late-Romantic Style; Sensuous; Stringent; Compositions; Discography; Biographical Study; Relationships; Musician; Writers; Nazi Germany; Individual Musical Language; Chris Walton; University of Stellenbosch; Orchestre Symphonique Bienne

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Professional and scholarly;

Othmar Schoeck

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