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This is the 1939 hardcover reprint of "Musical Masterpieces" by Olin Downes. Issued in New York by Tudor Publishing, the book contains examples of printed symphonic scores and several portraits of composers (the more recent of them being photographs). The text, which analyzes the important factors within the structure of various symphonies, is genial and informative. The author's descriptions are reliant on his own subjective experience of the many moods portrayed in the music. *************************************** The following are the subjects given in the Table of Contents : JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (Frontispiece portrait)- Orchestral Works, Organ Works, three choral-Preludes, Passacaglia a & Double Fugue in C Minor / CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD- Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" / FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN - Symphony in D Major, Symphony in E Flat Major, Symphony in C Minor / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Symphony in G Minor, Symphony in E Flat, Symphony in C Major ("Jupiter") / LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN (Portrait) - The Nine Symphonies / CARL MARIA VON WEBER - Overture to "Der Freischütz" / FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT - Symphony In B Minor ("The Unfinished"), Symphony in C Major / HECTOR BERLIOZ - "Fantastic" Symphony / ROBERT ALEXANDER SCHUMANN - Symphonies 1 - 4 (including "The Rhenish") / RICHARD WAGNER (Portrait) - Overtures to "Christopher Columbus", "Flying Dutchman", "Tannhäuser", Preludes to "Lohengrin", "Tristan und Isolde", "Die Meistersinger", and "The Siegfried Idyll" / CÉSAR FRANCK - Symphony in D Minor / ANTON BRUCKNER - Symphony No. 7 in E Major / JOHANNES BRAHMS - Symphonies 1 - 4 / CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS - Symphony No. 3 in C Minor / PETER ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphonies 4, 5, and 6 ("The Pathetique") / ANTONIN DVOŘÁK - Symphony 5 in E Major "New World" / NICOLAS RIMSKY - KORSAKOFF - Symphonic Suite ("Scheherazade") / VINCENT D'INDY - "Istar", Symphonic Variations / ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK - Overture to "Hansel und Gretel" / CLAUDE ACHILLE DEBUSSY (Portrait) - Prelude to "Afternoon of a Faun", Three Nocturnes / "La Mer, "Iberia" / RICHARD STRAUSS - "Don Juan", "Death and Transfiguration", "Till Eulenspiegel ", "Also Sprach Zarathustra", "Don Quixote", "Ein Heldenleben", "Symphonia Domestica" / JEAN SIBELIUS (Portrait) - "En Saga", Symphony 4 in A Minor / PAUL DULAS - "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" / ERNET BLOCH - "Schelomo" / IGOR STRAVINSKY ) Portrait - "L'Oiseau de Feu" , "Petrouchka"., "Le Sacre du Printemps" / Quotations ************************************************ TITLE: Symphonic Masterpieces / AUTHOR : Olin Downes (1886 - 1955) / IMPRINT : Tudor Publishing Company / PLACE : New York / DATE : (1939) / EDITION : Reprint - Later Tudor Printing / STATUS : OP - Out of Print / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover, contains six plate portraits, including frontispiece (printed on calendered paper); contains printed music, has a few footnotes; [xxii] + 294 pages; brownish-red cloth-covered boards and spine with gilt lettering and line embellishment on spine; text-block fore-edge rough cut. ********************************************** CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- Spine extremities are slightly compressed and have a touch of abrasion; gilt lettering on spine is somewhat dulled, else fairly bright; boards are clean, with minute splitting to bottom fore-edge corner tip; text-block edges are clean and unmarked. / BINDING -- The book has been read and thus the text-block is not as tight as when issued, however no leaves are detached or loose and the whole is solid. / INTERIOR -- The end-papers are mildly toned, else the interior is clean and free of marking. No writing, no signatures. Seller Inventory # 2231
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