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Books on: hungarian composer

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Hungarian Folk Music

Book by Bela Bartók, M. D. Calvocoressi; Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1931

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Folk Songs, Hungarian

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...well-known art song, Erik a, erik a buzakalasz, whose composer is unknown: The structure only is altered , having become...unchanged, and is of a type that entirely disagrees with the Hungarian peasants sense of rhythm. Accordingly, the transformation...
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

Book by Judith Tick; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Composers--United States--Biography, Seeger, Ruth Crawford--1901-1953, Women Composers--United States--Biography

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...Crawfords work. Unlike composers such as John Powell...in the work of the Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. He would...stressing the potential of Hungarian peasant music to counter...functional tonality. The composer Mark Nelson summarizes...consciousness among American composers, when the ideology...
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A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers - Vol. 1
Includes: Composers Born before 1900

Book by Pamela Youngdahl Dees; Greenwood Press, 2002

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Music By Women Composers--Bio-Bibliography, Piano Music--Bibliography

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...Petersburg, Russia A Russian pianist and composer of numerous short sets of piano pieces, Likoshin...Budapest, Hungary, Dec 21, 1898 d. ? A Hungarian violinist, conductor, and composer, Linz studied violin in Budapest with Hubay...
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Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits

Book by Michael H. Kater; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Composers--Germany--Biography, Music--Germany--20th Century--History And Criticism, National Socialism

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...Graf Georg von, 213 Husch, Gerhard, 239 Hugenberg, Alfred, 58 Humperdinck, Engelbert, 57 as composer of Hansel und Gretel , 178 Hungarian String Quartet, 98 Huston, Walter, 64 Ibsen, Henrik, 9 as author of Peer Gynt , 10 , 287 n34...
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The World of Great Composers

Book by David Ewen; Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962

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Composers--Biography

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...characteristics, 199 , 342 -46, 347 ; composer, 245 , 247 , 274 , 275...German Requiem , 342 , 344 ; Hungarian Dances , 367 ; melancholy...characteristics, 451 -53; composer, 453 -57; principal works...characteristics, 256 -61; composer, 257 , 259 -68, 361 , 362...

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Journal Articles on: hungarian composer

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A Decade of Bedlam: Hungarian-American Emigres versus the Muscovites, 1945-1955

Journal article by Judith Fai-Podlipnik; East European Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2003

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American-Hungarian Federation, Immigrants, Immigrants--Analysis, Immigrants--History, United Nations. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Nations facts about the persecution of Hungarians under the Soviets and create a resolution...situation, and to demand the release of Hungarian POWs from the Soviet Union. (19...years proved tumultuous for both the Hungarian-American community and its homeland. The Hungarians not only had recently suffered a...this subject, see general works on Hungarian history, as cited in note 14...proclamation by the American Hungarians to the People of Hungary, Annex...
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A Pan-African Composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa

Journal article by Paul Richards; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 21, 2001

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African music--Influence, Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Works, Composers--Works

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...West African friend" who was at the composers side when he died (60). To this snapshot of the composer, toward the end of his life, well...century. Perhaps she sang it to the composer from memory. Dr. Randle certainly would have known the composers father; the world of Sierra Leonean...Coleridge-Taylor musical events), the composer clearly understood Du Bois message. That the composers efforts with the Negro Melodies hit...
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The Composer's Voice: "what Women Can Do"

Journal article by Brenda Dalen; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 16, 1995

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Archer, Violet, Careers, Composers, Montreal Quebec Canada, Traditions, Women

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...do you think you would have become a composer had your parents stayed in Italy? V...for women over there, especially for composers. To give an example, theres an Italian...woman, who is married to an Italian composer-but shes English originally-and...the International Festival of Women Composers last year. The one whom I met-who...
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A Soundscape of Contemporary Hungarian Poetry

Journal article by Endre Szkarosi; Visible Language, Vol. 35, 2001

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the 1970s more Hungarian poets - usually...artist, musician, composer, with a profound...the outstanding Hungarian composer, Laszlo Sary...case of well known composer Laszlo Hortobagyi...development of Hungarian experimental culture...
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Hungarian Vocal Music, with an Introduction to Hungarian Lyric Diction, Part 1

Journal article by Leslie DE'Ath, Andrew Rethazi; Journal of Singing, Vol. 66, 2010

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...the beginning of opera in Hungarian belongs to the Hungarian National Theatre, whose...most significant operatic composer in Hungary in the nineteenth...survived as the most famous Hungarian opera from that century...music. Of the several other composers active in opera at the time...

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Magazine Articles on: hungarian composer

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Composer of Spiritual Communions: Argentine-Born Composer Osvaldo Golijov Creates a Movable, Musical Feast, Spanning a Range of Styles and Themes Rooted in the Human Spirit

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, March 2003

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Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Golijov, Osvaldo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Music, Latin-American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spirituality--Influence

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...communions: Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov creates a...works of Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov have not...photographs of heroes, not just composers like Mahler and Stravinsky...performance of the so-called Hungarian suicide song by Rezso Seres...and Nuevo (2002). The composer and chamber group first met...
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Misunderstanding (George) Gershwin: The Composer Mixed Popular and Classical Idioms like No One before or since, and Performers Are Still Baffled

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, October 1998

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Composers, Gershwin, George, Music criticism

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...classical and popular--many other composers have done that--but because of...could have been written only by a composer whose primary form of expression...Gershwin as primitive--worked for the composer in Europe, and he even promoted...stereotype. During his lifetime European composers were far more sympathetic to Gershwin...useful model for a Tin Pan Alley composer, because the combination of simple...line suited the rules that popular composers were obliged to follow. A melody...
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Leos Janacek: A Master Czech Composer

Magazine article by Thomas J. Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 19, October 2004

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Composers--Appreciation, Janacek, Leos, Janacek, Leos--Appreciation

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...who encouraged the young composer of some short organ and choir...was a part of the Austro- Hungarian empire, whose capital was...celebrity, and an international composer. It also marked the beginning...librettos adapted by the composer himself and each with a special...premiered in 1930, after the composers death. While he produced...
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Unconstructed Modernist: How Does One Account for the Fall of Pierre Boulez the Composer and the Rise of Pierre Boulez the Conductor?

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 276, September 1995

Subjects:

Boulez, Pierre--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Conductors (Music)--Criticism and interpretation

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...performance. Boulez the composer was serving Boulez the maestro...blame the fall of Boulez the composer on the rise of Boulez the...Italian Luciano Berio, the Hungarian Gyorgy Ligeti, the Englishman...among twentieth-century composers Boulez does not perform Prokofiev...a direct link between the composer and the conductor:he conducts...
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Joseph Haydn and the German Nation: A Subject and Servant of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Empire, the Composer Joseph Haydn Played an Important Role in the Emergence of German Cultural Nationalism during the 18th and 19th Centuries

Magazine article by Tim Blanning; History Today, Vol. 59, May 2009

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Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Works, Haydn, Joseph--Appreciation, Haydn, Joseph--Works

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...Cosmopolitan Empire, the Composer Joseph Haydn Played an Important...the Esterhazy family was Hungarian by origin, theirs was a...Porpora, the Neapolitan composer. But Vienna was also a city...of 18th-century German composers born before Haydn: Johann...envy Germany its estimable composers, and secretly seek to learn...

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Newspaper Articles on: hungarian composer

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MUSIC AND MUSSOLINI; with Three Pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian Dictator's Favourite Composer, Receiving Their Proms Premieres This Week, William Ward Examines the Cultural Legacy of Fascism

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 5, 2009

Subjects:

Composers, Proms (Parties)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Soviet performers, Jewish composers and American black artists...outspoken anti-fascist Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, British figures...Menuhin. Even "decadent" composers banned by the Nazis, such...The popular Florentine composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco...
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Composer's Tribute to His Master; CLASSICAL: Kurtag's 80th Birthday Celebration, Wigmore Hall

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 21, 2006

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Composers--Appreciation

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Composers Tribute to His Master; CLASSICAL: Kurtags 80th Birthday Celebration...Byline: BARRY MILLINGTON TO celebrate the 80th birthday of the senior Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag, the Wigmore Hall had the happy idea of inviting Thomas...
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Liszt Was the Elvis of Classical Music; as the RLPO Marks 10 Years of Its Partnership with Classic FM, Laura Davis Discovers the Strange Stories Behind Some of History's Most Famous Composers

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 1, 2010

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...about some of the greatest composers ever to have lived, interjected...When you see the names of composers written down, they come...place later in the month. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt gets his moment...and his fingers." But the composers pride was to come before...
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PLAY 'EM AGAIN, SAM! Pianist among Performers Marking Anniversaries of Great Composers: CLASSICAL MUSIC

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 1, 2010

Subjects:

Anniversaries, Composers, Concerts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Performers Marking Anniversaries of Great Composers: CLASSICAL MUSIC. Byline: PATSY...marking the birth or death of great composers such as Mendelssohn, Purcell, Haydn...anniversary - it will open with a sonata by Hungarian composer Ern Dohnsznyi who died 50 years ago...
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Composer's Final and Best-Loved Symphony

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 18, 2011

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in St Petersburg and the composer died just nine days later...blow. But he was a prolific composer and enjoyed many popular...the Pathtique is one of the composers best-loved works, full...their soundtracks. The Czech composer Gustav Mahler first featured...It was premiered at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: hungarian composer

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BartÓk, BÉla

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ba lo bor tok, 1881 1945, Hungarian composer and collector of folk music...music of varied origin. As a composer he gained his first success with...published in English are The Hungarian Folk Song (tr. 1931) and Serbo...
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Liszt, Franz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...FRANZ frants list, 1811 86, Hungarian composer and pianist. Liszt was a...decided to make a career as a composer, and became musical director...transcribing many works of other composers. His most outstanding works...and A (1848 61), and 20 Hungarian Rhapsodies (of which he...
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KodÁly, ZoltÁn

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

KODALY, ZOLTAN zol tan ko di, 1882 1967, Hungarian composer and collector of folk music. In 1906 he began to...in Hungary. With Bartok he collected thousands of Hungarian folk songs and dances, and the influence of this...
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DohnÁnyi, Ernst Von

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ernst f n do nanyi, Hung. Ernoer no, 1877 1960, Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor. He studied at the Royal...from 1919 to 1944 and became musical director of the Hungarian State Radio in 1931. After World War II, he left...
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Goldmark, Karl

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GOLDMARK, KARL 1830 1915, Hungarian composer. His concert overture Sakuntala (1865), his symphony A...Goldmark, 1872 1936, a pupil of Dvorak in New York, was a composer and educator. From 1924 to 1936 he was chairman of the composition...

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