Old scores and new readings
Subtitle: discussions on musical subjects
By: by John F. Runciman
Publisher: At the Sign of the Unicorn
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Opera.; Musicians.; Music.
Notes: Articles reprinted from the Saturday review, the New review and the Dome.
Table of contents: title: Our last great musician (Henry Purcell, 1658-95); title: Bach and the "Matthew" passion and the "John"; title: Handel; title: Haydn and his "Creation"; title: Mozart, his Don Giovanni and the Requiem; title: Fidelio; title: Schubert; title: Weber and Wagner; title: Italian Opera, dead and dying; title: Verdi young, and Verdi younger; title: The flying Dutchman; title: Lohengrin; title: ̲Tristan and Isolda; title: Siegfried; title: The dusk of the Gods; title: Parsifal; title: Bayreuth in 1897; title: A note on Brahms; title: Anton Dvorak; title: Tschaikowsky and his Pathetic symphony; title: Lamoureux and his orchestra.