Furtwängler on Music

Essays and Addresses by Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ronald Taylor, Wilhelm Furtwangler

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English

Scolar Press
12 December 1991

Western "classical" music

Wilhelm FurtwÃ¤ngler left not only some of the greatest interpretations of operatic and symphonic music on record, but also expressed his views on

musical issues of the moment in a number of outspoken essays and talks.

His writings range from practical matters of performance and interpretation to aesthetic reflections on what he saw as the alarming direction in which music was developing in the wake of Schoenberg and the twelve-tone system of composition.

Professor Ronald Taylor has here, for the first time, translated and annotated a selection of FurtwÃ¤ngler's writings covering the four decades from the First World War to the conductor's death in 1954, and prefaced them with an essay on FurtwÃ¤ngler's controversial career and complicated personality.

The result is a collection of stimulating pieces with a claim on our attention, made all the greater for reflecting the musical and philosophical ideals of one of the great conductors of the twentieth century.

By: Ronald Taylor, Wilhelm Furtwangler
Imprint: Scolar Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 162mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9780859678162
ISBN 10: 0859678164
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 12 December 1991
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction, Part I - The Practice of Music, Part II - On Composers, Part III - On Art and Life, Notes, Index

Translated and edited by Ronald Taylor, University of Sussex, UK