Rome MAN AND HIS MUSIC The Story of Musical Experience in the West ROMANTICISM AND THE 2oth CENTURY from 1800 by WILFRID MELLERS SALISBURY SQUARE - LONDON CONTENTS Page Preface ...... ix PART I INTROSPECTION AND NATIONALISM 1 Chopin, Schumann, and Mendelssohn . . 3 2 Liszt and Romantic Virtuosity . . 33 3 The Russian Nationalists . . . .49 4 The Nationalists of Central Europe . . 74 5 The Decline of Nationalism . . . 91 PART n INTROSPECTION AND ISOLATION 1 Two Song-writers . . . . 101 2 Franck and his Disciples with a Note on Skryabin 113 3 Delius, Sibelius, and Nature . . . .123 4 Debussy and Ravel ..... J3L 5 Two Traditionalists Faure and Strauss . .152 6 Elgar and Vaughan Williams . . . 166 7 Schoenberg and Hindemith . . . .182 8 Stravinsky and Bart6k . . . .198 9 Postlude Charles Ives and the New World . 218 Index of Musical Examples . . . . .226 General Index ....... 229 6 1 2703 . ILLUSTRATIONS An afternoon at Liszts . Frontispiece From M usic In the Romantic Era, by Alfred Einstein, published by W. W. JVorion Chopin ...... facing 22 From Leila, by Andre Maurois, published bj jfomlham Cape Clara Wieck . . . . . 22 Rischgitz Gilles ....... 23 Musee du Louvre Hugo Wolf ....... 134 From Hugo Wolf, by Frank Walker, published by J. M. Dent Decor of The Sleeping Princess . . . . 135 From Six Great Russian Composers, by Donald Brook, published by Rockliff Debussy . . . . . . . i o From the drawing by Jean Dulac in the possession of Mrs. E. Calvocoressi Stravinsky . . . . . . . 150 From Stravinsky in the Theatre, published by Peter Owen Page of Webern autograph score . . . 151 Universal Edition PREFACE T IKE point of view from which my share of history has been written was discussed in thePreface to The What I said then is relevant to this volume also all 1 would like to add here is a comment on the things 1 have left out, and on the proportionate amount of space 1 have given to the composers I have included. My aim has been to adapt a phrase from the P [...] Autor: Edward Hutton Wydawnictwo: Howard Press Rok wydania: 2007 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 248 Wymiary: 14 x 21.6 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781406767773