Bøker av David Ewen

This biography of the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini offers a captivating account of his life and career. Ewen details Toscanini's rise to fame as a virtuoso musician and his later years as the principal conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The book is filled with anecdotes about Toscanini's personal life and artistic achievements.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Lighter Classics in Music: A Comprehensive Guide to Musical Masterworks in a Lighter Vein by 187 Composers, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Musicologist Ewen has made an attempt to define the boundary between "light opera" and musical comedies, musical plays, and grand opera. He has focussed on the standards of Viennese operates, French opera-comique and opera-bouffe, English comic and romantic opera, and italian opera-buffa, including a limited number of other works (such as Martha) in his opinion "so ingratiating in manner and so readily assimilable by audiences at first hearing" that they belong in a full treatment of the field. Using an average of five paragraphs each, he covers 167 European works by 81 composers, written between 1728 and 1949. Production history, plot, points of significant musical interest, are given, set off by fragments of critical evaluation. the plan of the book is alphabetical by little of work, with appropriate cross-titling for transitions. Ewen's customary reckless use of the words "masterwork"and"masterpiece" is the only serious shortcoming of an otherwise straightforward reference book. americans, semi professional producers will find this a useful work of comprehensive, but manageable, proportions. (Kirkus Reviews)