作者：PaulKildea
出版社：Penguin
副标题：AJourneythroughRomanticism
出版年：2019-8-1
页数：368
定价：GBP9.99
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780141980560
内容简介
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In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism – his 24 Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution of the modern instrument), so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, which remained in their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left.
This brilliant and unclassifiable book traces the history of Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with the Majorcan pianino, which during the Second World War assumed an astonishing cultural potency as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own.
The unexpected hero of the second part of the book is the great keyboard player and musical thinker Wanda Landowska, who rescued the pianino from Valldemossa in 1913, and who would later become one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth century. Kildea shows how her story – a compelling account based for the first time on her private papers – resonates with Chopin's, while simultaneously distilling part of the cultural and political history of Europe and the United States in the central decades of the century. Kildea's beautifully interwoven narratives, part cultural history and part detective story, take us on an unexpected journey through musical Romanticism and allow us to reflect freshly on the changing meaning of music over time.
作者简介
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Paul Kildea holds an honours degree in piano performance and a masters degree in musicology from The University of Melbourne – where he is now an Honorary Principal Fellow and where in 2016 he was Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow – and a doctorate from Oxford University. His books include Selling Britten and Britten on Music. In January 2013 Penguin published Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century to enormous critical acclaim; it is now widely recognized as the best book on its subject, the Financial Times calling it 'unquestionably the music book of the year.' In June 2018 Penguin published Chopin's Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism, which is currently being developed as a feature film. In October 2019 he succeeded Carl Vine as Artistic Director of Musica Viva, Australia.
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第一部分追蹤西班牙工匠Bauza所造的鋼琴，蕭邦以之在馬略卡島上譜寫了部分Preludes，然後寫文化音樂在巴黎及歐洲大陸直至一戰前的流變。第二部分以Wanda Landowska為中心，寫她輾轉得到蕭邦的鋼琴，後來在波蘭、德國、法國成名，以至二戰時走難到美國，留下在法國的家當。蕭邦的鋼琴到今日仍未尋回，不知哪天重現。Wanda Landowska 1945年在紐約以Harpsichord演奏Go…
第一部分追蹤西班牙工匠Bauza所造的鋼琴，蕭邦以之在馬略卡島上譜寫了部分Preludes，然後寫文化音樂在巴黎及歐洲大陸直至一戰前的流變。第二部分以Wanda Landowska為中心，寫她輾轉得到蕭邦的鋼琴，後來在波蘭、德國、法國成名，以至二戰時走難到美國，留下在法國的家當。蕭邦的鋼琴到今日仍未尋回，不知哪天重現。Wanda Landowska 1945年在紐約以Harpsichord演奏Go…
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