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Berlioz: Romantic and Classic. E-book. Formato EPUB Ernest Newman - Ehs, 2025 -
It is fairly safe to say that there is no musician about whom people differ so strongly as about Berlioz. His case is, indeed, unique. We are pretty well agreed as to the relative positions of the other men; roughly speaking, all cultivated musicians would put Wagner and Brahms and Beethoven in the first rank of composers, and Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Dvoràk in the second or third. Even in the case of a disputed problem like Strauss, the argument among those who know his work is not, I take it, as to his being a musician of the first rank, but as to the precise position he occupies among the others of that limited regiment. Upon Berlioz, however, the world seems unable to make up its mind. The dispute here is not as to where he stands among the great ones, but whether he really belongs to the great ones at all. Though there is no absolute unanimity of opinion upon the total work of, say, Wagner or Beethoven — no complete agreement as to the amount of weakness that is bound up with their strength — there is at all events perfect unanimity of opinion that Wagner and Beethoven are of the royal line. But we have Berlioz extolled to the skies by one section of competent musicians, while another section can scarcely speak of him politely; he really seems to create a kind of physical nausea in them; and some of them even deny his temperament to have been really musical. There is surely nothing in the history of music to parallel the situation… ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ernest Newman, born in 1868 and died in 1959, was a major English music critic and musicologist of the 20th century. Self-taught in music, he began his career in journalism while working at a bank. He published early works on Gluck and Wagner in the 1890s. Known for his intellectually rigorous and objective criticism, he stood apart from more subjective contemporaries. He wrote for the Sunday Times for nearly forty years and authored landmark studies on Wagner, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss.
Musical Studies. E-book. Formato EPUB Ernest Newman - Skyline, 2018 -
Two or three years ago Richard Strauss was practically unknown in this country. A few people had heard works of his abroad; a few more had bought his complex scores and worried through them as best they could, mostly deriving from them only the impression that Strauss was getting madder and madder every year. From other and happier climes, where the demand for music is almost as great as the supply, there came weird stories of this new art. One thing was universally admitted as being beyond dispute—that Strauss was a master of orchestral effect such as the world had never seen; but all the rest was pure legend. In 1897 Also sprach Zarathustra was played at the Crystal Palace; old Sir George Grove, in a private letter, expressed what was probably the opinion of most of the people who sat it out: "What can have happened to drag down music from the high level of beauty, interest, sense, force, grace, coherence and any other good quality, which it rises to in Beethoven and also (not so high) in Mendelssohn, down to the low level of ugliness and want of interest that we had in Strauss's absurd farrago...? Noise and effect seems to be so much the aim now." It was the old, old story. The man who listens to a new art and is momentarily revolted by it never thinks that the deficiencies may be not in the art but in himself; with sublime arrogance he disposes in half-an-hour of a work that perhaps took a brain three times the weight of his own half a decade to write.
Wagner nights. E-book. Formato EPUB Ernest Newman - Castelvecchi, 2015 -
Ernest Newman, il maggior esperto di Richard Wagner, esamina dieci tra le opere più famose del compositore tedesco, mettendo in rilievo i temi fondamentali, i miti, le fonti letterarie dei libretti e le evoluzioni stilistiche. Salutato come la più acuta ed esaustiva analisi dell'opera wagneriana, Wagner Nights ha riscosso l'entusiasmo senza riserve di specialisti e musicofili. Newman arricchisce l'analisi di trame, testi e musiche delle opere con materiali storici e biografici che trae dal suo immenso bagaglio di conoscenze accumulate in anni di studi dedicati al compositore. L'autore prende il lettore per mano e lo accompagna in un viaggio attraverso l'universo wagneriano; e lungo la strada chiarisce, con prosa lucida e numerosi esempi, tutte le intuizioni delle partiture musicali, i principali leitmotiv e le loro interconnessioni. Questa nuova edizione italiana di Wagner Nights è la prima traduzione integrale del testo originale.