The New Grove Modern Masters Bartok, Stravinsky, Hindemith

by Lampert, Vera

• ISBN13: 9780393315929
• ISBN10: 0393315924
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Three seminal figures in 20th-century music are considered in this volume. First, the life and works of Béla Bartók, the Hungarian composer who drew deeply on the folklore of his homeland to bring a fresh vitality into 20th-century music, are treated by László Somfai and Vera Lampert, working with resources of the Budapest Bartók Archive. Second, Igor Stravinsky, whose life'”from his upbringing in prerevolutionary Russia, through the intellectual crucible that was the Paris of the 1920s, to his final years in Los Angeles and New York'”is charted by Eric Walter White, while his works are tellingly set in context by Jeremy Noble. Third, Paul Hindemith, the craftsman/composer par excellence, is considered by Ian Kemp. Taken together, these articles brilliantly illuminate the forces bearing on Western music in the early to mid-20th century.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Bela Bartok
Childhood and student years	p. 1
Discoveries: Strauss, Folk music, Debussy	p. 8
Neglect and success, 1910-20	p. 15
Concert tours	p. 21
Last years	p. 27
Early works, 1889-1907	p. 32
Establishment of mature style, 1908-11	p. 37
Years of extension, 1911-24	p. 50
Classical middle period, 1926-37	p. 59
Last works, 1938-45	p. 73
Work-list	p. 79
Writings	p. 89
Bibliography	p. 93
Igor Stravinsky
1882-1910	p. 105
1910-14	p. 118
1914-20	p. 130
1920-39	p. 144
1939-52	p. 158
1953-71	p. 168
Work-list	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 198
Paul Hindemith
Life	p. 229
Works	p. 239
Work-list	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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