ENGLISH

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

By Benjamin M. Korstvedt

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521632269, 9780521632263, 9780511019197
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
657 kB (672742 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pages
146\146
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and provides an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates, by means of a study of well-known recordings, how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions.

Similar books