Experiencing the violin concerto
Subtitle: a listener's companion
By: Franco Sciannameo
Series: The listener's companion; Listener's companion
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780810888852; 9780810888869
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Music appreciation; Analysis, appreciation; History and criticism; Concertos (Violin)
Description: Explores the violin concerto from Vivaldi to Bartók and beyond, the social and personal histories of unforgettable virtuosi, the wonderful instruments they played, and the audiences they conquered worldwide.
Notes: "Timeline": pages xi-xiv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174), discography (pages 175-176), and index.
Table of contents: title: In the Baroque : Vivaldi's Four seasons and Bach's four keyboards; title: Mozart-Haydn-Brunetti-Tomasini; title: Viotti and Beethoven; title: The meteoric Paganini and his epigones; title: At the heart of German Romanticism : Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Bruch; title: Brahms's Violin concerto and the end of an era; title: In the after-Brahms : monsters and leprechauns; title: Pillars of Modernism : Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Bartók; title: Barber and Korngold, Shostakovich and... Schoenberg; title: Music without anxieties.