Opera and the morbidity of music / Joseph Kerman.

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Main Author: Kerman, Joseph, 1924-2014
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, c2008.
Series:New York Review Books collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Classical music: rise and fall, and rise
  • Opera and the morbidity of music
  • Two cheers for Rach 3
  • Labyrinth music
  • William Byrd and the Catholics
  • The operas of Monteverdi
  • Bach: a short life
  • A guide to the Well-tempered clavier
  • Wilfrid Mellers on Bach
  • Mozart: four biographies
  • Mozart's last year
  • Playing Mozart: the piano concertos
  • The magic flute
  • Sonata forms
  • Beethoven: works and life
  • Beethoven hero
  • Text and act: Beethoven's concertos
  • Three riffs on the nineth
  • The romantic generation
  • Schubert's songs
  • Berlioz: a life
  • Reading opera
  • Verdi: a life
  • Verdi: the late operas
  • Wagner and Wagnerism
  • A ring of San Francisco
  • Bayreuth, 2001
  • The art of the program note
  • Maria Callas (1923-1977)
  • Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004).