Hans Christian Andersen's Interest in Music
Author | : Gustav Hetsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1930 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gustav Hetsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1930 |
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Author | : AnnaHarwell Celenza |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351564218 |
Hans Christian Andersen was the most prominent Danish author of the nineteenth century. Now known primarily for his fairy tales, during his lifetime he was equally famous for his novels, travelogues, poetry, and stage works, and it was through these genres that he most often reflected on the world around him. With the bicentennial of Andersen's birth in 2005, there is still much about the writer that is not yet common knowledge. This book explores a single aspect of that void - his interest in and relationship to the musical culture of nineteenth-century Europe. Why look to Andersen for information about music? To begin, Andersen had a musical background. He enjoyed a brief career as an opera singer and dancer at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, and in later years he went on to produce opera libretti for the Danish and German stage. Andersen was also an avid music devotee. He made thirty major European tours during his seventy years, and on each of these trips he regularly attended opera and concert performances, recording his impressions in a series of travel diaries. In short, Andersen was a well-informed listener, and as this book reveals, his reflections on the music of his age serve as valuable sources for the study of music reception in the nineteenth century. Over the course of his life, Andersen embraced and then later rejected performers such as Maria Malibran, Franz Liszt, and Ole Bull, and his interest in opera and instrumental music underwent a series of dramatic transformations. In his final years, Andersen promoted figures as disparate as Wagner and Mendelssohn, while strongly objecting to Brahms. Although such changes in taste might be interpreted as indiscriminate by modern-day readers, this study shows that such shifts in opinion were not contradictory, but rather quite logical given the social and cultural climate of the age.
Author | : Kjeld Heltoft |
Publisher | : Cristian Ejlers Forlar |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788772410470 |
Hans Christian Andersen, as well as being one of the world's greatest writers of poetry and fairy tales, was also seriously committed to art. The quality of his drawings, paper-arts and collages is evident in this book by Danish painter and writer, Kjeld Heltoft. In addition to being a new edition of the author's original book on this subject (which appeared in five different editions between 1969 and 1980), this publication is important because of the much enhanced quality of the reproduction of Andersen's works. For the first time they come very close to his pictorial art as it looked when he created it.
Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1626862834 |
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”—Hans Christian Andersen, “The Ugly Duckling.” Fairy tales are timeless treasures passed from generation to generation, and few are as beloved as those of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen. From the princess so sensitive she is discomforted by a single pea beneath a tower of mattresses to the unfortunate-looking duckling who matures into a stunning swan, these are the stories that stay with us long after we leave childhood behind. First published in 1835, Andersen’s tales continue to delight the modern audience. Now part of the Word Cloud Classics series, Hans Christian Andersen Tales is a chic and affordable collection of these wonderful stories, complete with classics like “Thumbelina” and “The Little Mermaid,” plus some wonderful lesser-known gems to discover anew.
Author | : Paul Binding |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030016923X |
A noted literary critic examines the life of the prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across Europe.
Author | : Frank Loesser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Motion picture music |
ISBN | : 9780711914346 |
Author | : Oscar George Sonneck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jackie Wullschlager |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2002-06-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226917474 |
Beloved by generations of children and adults around the world for tales such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) revolutionized children's literature. Although others before him had collected and retold folk stories and fairy tales, Andersen was the first to create the stories himself, instilling a previously stilted genre with new humor, wisdom, and pathos. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other original sources (many never before translated from the Danish), Wullschlager shows in this compelling, extensively researched biography how Andersen's writings—darker and more diverse than previously recognized—reflected the complexities of his life, a far cry from the "happily ever after" of a fairy tale. As we follow in his footsteps from Golden Age Copenhagen to the princely courts of Germany and the villas of southern Italy, Andersen becomes a figure every bit as fascinating as a character from one of his stories—a gawky, self-pitying, and desperate man, but also one of the most gifted storytellers the world has ever known.
Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Children's stories, Danish |
ISBN | : 9780393060812 |
Celebrates the stories told by Denmark's perfect wizard and re-envisions Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. It will captivate readers with annotations that exlore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the 19th century.
Author | : Wenonah M. Govea |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1995-06-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0313369461 |
The harp is both the oldest and the newest of instruments. It has existed in some form in nearly all cultures since man has made music. The contemporary concert instrument has been known since the mid-19th century. This work is a compendium of the biographies of many notable harpists of the modern era. The biographies make clear how these performers shaped the contrasts in style and technique of harp playing that have developed over the past 150 years, as cultural, social, and psychological forces influenced individual performance. In addition to the biographical information, the A-Z entries include critical reviews, discographies, and selected bibliographies where possible. New material from the former Soviet states is included.