Othmar Schoeck
Subtitle: life and works
By: Chris Walton.
Series: Eastman studies in music -- v. 65
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781580463003
Subjects: Schoeck, Othmar, -- 1886-1957; Composers -- Switzerland -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: "Concise work catalogue and discography": p.

Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Schoeck and the Swiss; title: Childhood and youth; title: Wolf amidst the sheep; title: Leipzig, Munich, and an awful little moustache; title: Back in the fold; title: Hermann Hesse, via the dentist; title: Look back in melancholy; title: Chamber music; title: The art of counterpoint; title: Busoni; title: The picture on the wall; title: Touch of Venus; title: Silent bronze; title: Sucking sweet folly; title: Self portrait, with sandwich; title: Elegy; title: Goodbye to Geneva; title: The bee in the rose; title: Raging queen; title: Storms in the pigeon loft; title: Into the vortex; title: Wrong-note rag; title: Hildebill; title: Variations and fugue on an age-old theme; title: Put to the wheel; title: Gisela; title: Lost in the stars; title: Whores and madonnas; title: "; title: he can write music all right; title: "; title: Tea with (Ms.) Hitler; title: Aryanizing music; title: Arms and the man; title: Castles in the air; title: Goering's bullshit; title: Collapse; title: The people at home; title: The reckoning; title: Transfigured summer nights; title: Silent lights; title: Fair measure; title: Rather nice horn; title: Sleepless in Wollishofen; title: Echoes and elegies; title: Running on empty; title: Epilogue.