Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 14), pp. x+494, ISBN 978-2-503-59100-1.
This volume investigates the figure of Luigi Cherubini, with the aim of providing a picture of the various faces that a composer and …
Read More →Antoine Reicha and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Composer
edited by Fabio Morabito and Louise Bernard de Raymond, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2020 (Quaderni Clementiani, 5), pp. 360, ISBN: 978-88-8109-522-3.
Essays by Louise Benrard de Raymond, Muriel Boulan, Thomas Christensen, Étienne Jardin, Ellen Lockhart, Fabio Morabito, William O’Hara, Alban …
Read More →Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150-1330
edited by Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 40), pp. xviii+318, ISBN: 978-2-503-59099-8.
The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and proliferation of a diverse and unprecedented outpouring of musical activity known as the ars antiqua…
Read More →The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti
edited by Daniela Tortora, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Contemporary Composers, 3), pp. xxiv+604, ISBN: 978-2-503-58952-7.
The première of Sylvano Bussotti’s La Passion selon Sade occurred fifty years ago in Palermo during the fifth edition of “Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica” (5 September …
Read More →Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth Century
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 39), pp. xiv+528, ISBN: 978-2-503-58951-0.
In 1795 Friedrich Schiller wrote: «Die bildende Kunst in ihrer höchsten Vollendung muss Musik werden und uns durch unmittelbare sinnliche Gegenwart rühren» (Schiller, Über die ästhetische …
Read More →François De Médicis, La maturation artistique de Debussy dans son contexte historique (1884-1902)
Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 38), pp. xx+814, ISBN: 978-2-503-58950-3
This work is centered on the figure of Claude Debussy in the years between 1884 and 1902 — from the moment he captured the Prix de Rome to the premiere …
Read More →Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy
edited by Arnold Jacobshagen, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 13), ISBN: 978-2-503-58820-9, pp. xiv+420.
This volume reflects on Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) and the international reception of his work 150 years after his death.
Rossini was the most …
Read More →Music Publishing and Composers (1750-1850)
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 37), pp. xiv+322, ISBN: 978-2-503-58815-5.
The development of music publishing in the final years of the eighteenth and first decades of the nineteenth century had a decisive and far-reaching influence on …
Read More →Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897)
completed, revised and edited by Sybille Werner, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 36), pp. xviii+810, ISBN 978-2-503-58814-8.
This long awaited revised volume I completes Henry-Louis de La Grange’s four-volume English language biography of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), …
Read More →New Masterclass
