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1 online resource (434 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Overture / Robin Holloway -- Preface -- Introduction -- The life. Family and youth ; School and university ; Amsterdam in 1880 ; De Nieuwe Gids ; Teaching in Den Bosch ; Elisabeth de Jong van Beek en Donk ; Marriage ; The road upwards ; Mokje and Cécile ; Richard Strauss ; Initial successes ; Friendships ; Te Deum ; Mahler and Debussy ; A. A. Noske ; The Rembrandt year ; Marsyas ; Elisabeth and Johanna ; Johanna and Elisabeth ; Further heights ; Diepenbrock's 50th birthday ; War ; Netherlands, arise! ; Missa in die festo ; Crisis ; The birds ; Faust ; Peace ; Electra ; Finis vitae -- The music. Contemporaries ; The choral music ; The lieder ; Instrumental works -- Appendices |
| Summary |
The music of the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) is one of the glories of European late-Romantic culture, although is hardly known outside his native Netherlands. This translation makes Leo Samama's masterly study of Diepenbrock available to non-Dutch readers for the first time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-409) and index |
| Subject |
Diepenbrock, Alphons, 1862-1921.
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| SUBJECT |
Diepenbrock, Alphons, 1862-1921 fast |
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Composers -- Netherlands -- Biography
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Romanticism in music.
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romanticism (form of expression)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians.
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Composers
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Annable, Brent, translator.
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Holloway, Robin, writer of supplementary textual content.
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| ISBN |
1800105029 |
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9781800105027 |
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