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... Golden Age The Age of Mozart and Beethoven, by Giorgio Pestelli (Cambridge Universi ty Press, 323pp., £19.50 bound, £8.95 paperback) The age of Mozart and Beethoven, which was also that of Gluck, Haydn, Cimarosa, Weber, Rossini, Schubert and a host of ...
... warm-hearted homage to his fellow-artists, and also a searching analysis of some of his roles and of the song-cycles by Beethoven and Schubert, for the interpretation of which he is no less famous than for his theatrical appearances. His penetrating comments ...
... forms, and that he had no progeny. Though he admired the classic beauty of Gluck's music and the irres istible power of Beethoven, he never imitated them. Indeed, he is so very much his own man that his popularity has suffered from his very uniqueness ...
... BOOKS The New Grove: Beethoven, by Joseph Kerman and Alan Tyson (Papermac, 216 pp., £3.95) Masters of Italian Opera, by Philip Gossett, William Ashbrook, Julian Budden, Friedrich Lippmann, Andrew Porter and Mosco Carrier; 353 pp., £4.95) Second Viennese ...
... her net wide and includes in her work such outstanding singers as Wilhelmina Schroeder-Devrient (1804-1860), who counted Beethoven and Wagner among her most fervent admirers, and the great prime donne of the romantic period, including Giuditta Pasta, 'the ...
... i This is not aitogetner surprising. While that composer was idolised dur- ing most of his career, genuinely admired by Beethoven and Weber, and considered after their death to be theii i worthy successor, he is today all bui forgotten. However, the author ...
... Books Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores, by Alan Tyson (Harvard, £17.50) Author of The New Grove Beethoven and of the Beethoven sketchbooks, Tyson has compiled this authoritative and handsomely printed book from articles published in journals and ...
... virtuosos and an unfailing crowd-puller at concerts everywhere in the world It ranks in popularity with the concertos of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. But how many regu lar concertgoers can name another composition by him? As a music ...