%{search_type} search results

• Preface
• 1. Contexts
• 2 Creation
• 3. Interpretation
• 4. Re-evaluation
• 5. Chopin's third concerto
• Appendices
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Chopin's E minor and F minor Piano Concertos played a vital role in his career as a composer-pianist. Praised for their originality and genius when he performed them, the concertos later attracted censure for ostensible weaknesses in form, development and orchestration. They also suffered at the hands of editors and performers, all the while remaining enormously popular. This handbook re-evaluates the concertos against the traditions that shaped them so that their many outstanding qualities can be fully appreciated. It describes their genesis, Chopin's own performances and his use of them as a teacher. A survey of their critical, editorial and performance histories follows, in preparation for an analytical 're-enactment' of the music - that is, a narrative account of the concertos as embodied in sound, rather than in the score. The final chapter investigates Chopin's enigmatic 'third concerto', the Allegro de concert. Chopin: The Piano Concertos has won the Wilk Book Prize for Research in Polish Music.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Contexts - Form, Reception and Performance: Henrich Koch and the classical concerto - Koch and the concerto genre
• Koch and concerto first-movement form
• Origins of Mozart's piano concertos - The "Pasticcio" concertos, K37, 39, 40 and 41 - K107/i-iii
• Aria forms
• Movement forms I - First movements - The sonata conception
• First movement form
• Movement forms II - Slow movements - Character
• Slow movement structures - overview
• Ritornello (aria) forms
• Episodic (rondo) forms
• Variations
• Movement forms III - finales - "Simple" rondos
• Sonata rondos
• Variations
• The listener's perspective: i - Ways of listening - "Kenner" and "Nichtkenner"
• ii - Channels of communication - rhetoric
• Frameworks of understanding - aesthetic and philosophical contexts
• Performance considerations - Keyboard instruments
• Orchestral size. Mozart's Piano Concertos: A Register.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the first section of the book tackles broad thematic issues such as the role of the piano concerto in Mozart's quasi-freelance life in late 18th-century Vienna, the origin of his concertos in earlier traditions of concerto writing, 18th-century theoretical frameworks for the understanding of movement forms, subsequent historical shifts in the perception of the concerto's form, listening strategies and performance practices. This is followed by a "documentary register" which proceeds through all 23 original works, drawing together information on the source materials. Accounts of the concertos' compositional genesis, early performance history and reception are also included here, drawing extensively on the Mozart family correspondence and other contemporary reports.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Zu Lebzeiten, 1756-1791. Briefe und Dokumente aus Mozarts Zeit
• Das. 19. Jahrhundert. "Concert" / Heinrich Christoph Koch. "Contrastierungskunst" / Hans Georg Nägeli. "Schweigen in den Korridoren des Ruhmes"--Dokumente zu Mozarts Klavierkonzerten im 19. Jahrhunert
• 1891. Zuer Wiederbelebung der Mozart'schen Clavierconcerte / Carl Reinecke. Mozarts Klaviermusik / Carl Spitteler
• Das 20. Jahrhundert I. Mozarts Klavierkonzerte, eine Übersicht / Marius Flothuis. "Col basso"? / Charles Rosen. Mozarts eigene Kadenzen zu seinen Klavierkonzerten / Dominik Sackmann. Ein Satz über die Kadenz / Hermann Hesse
• Intermezzo mit einer Anmerkung. Meisterkus / Urs Frauchiger. Mozart Paralipomenon / Otto Jahn
• Das 20. Jahrhundert II. Umwelt und Nachwelt (KV 271) / Ulrich Dibelius. Die Werkstatt des Komponisten (KV 488) / Konrad Küster. Mozart komponiert (KV 491) / Volkmar Braunbehrens. Konzertleben in der österreichischen Haupstadt (KV 595) / H.C. Robbins Landon.