Pleasures of music : a reader's choice of great writing about music and musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw / edited with an introduction by Jacques Barzun. [print]

Music and words Jacques Barzun -- Fiction -- A tale of Don Juan E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Mr. Jack, composer Bernard Shaw -- A pilgrimage to Beethoven Richard Wagner -- An artist from the grocer's Hector Berlioz -- Natasha sings for her lover Leo Tolstoy -- Wine, woman, and song Thomas Love Peacock -- A meeting of the House of David Robert Schumann -- Parting serenade at Todgers's Charles Dickens -- Allegory on the composer's life Franz Schubert -- Dinner with Gambara Honore de Balzac -- The rough diamond Ivan Turgenev -- The wandering minstrel Carl-Maria von Weber -- Murder to music Ann Radcliffe -- Christmas at Mellstock Thomas Hardy -- Criticism -- Music at large -- Making the rounds Romain Rolland -- Music with meals G.K. Chesterton -- The secret power of musick Robert Burton -- The spirit of jazz Constant Lambert -- Music is infinite Sidney Lanier -- The unity of music Ferruccio Busoni -- Music and nature Jules Renard and Maurice Ravel -- How music imitates Thomas De Quincey -- In praise of music Martin Luther -- The ear is not enough P.E. Vernon -- Music and the deity Sir Thomas Browne -- The idea of a song Philip Heseltine -- Music and drama -- The Paris Opera in 1760 Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Semi-operas Roger North -- The fallacy of music-drama Edmund Gurney -- Banish the libretto Stendhal -- The passionate style Claudio Monteverdi -- Mangled operas and the star system Thomas Love Peacock -- A new kind of opera Beaumarchais -- The greatness of Wagner Friedrich Nietzsche -- The limits of music Hector Berlioz -- The composer as psychologist Camille Saint-Saens -- Bury the program W.J. Turner -- Composers and performers -- Palestrina Charles Gounod -- Johann Sebastian Bach Romain Rolland -- Lulli and Rameau Voltaire -- Beethoven's day Richard Wagner -- The conductor Claude Debussy -- Handel Samuel Butler -- Cesar Franck is inspired Vincent d'Indy -- Sir George Grove and Beethoven Bernard Shaw -- Chopin, a national poet Franz Liszt -- Mozart and modernism Eugene Delacroix -- Meyerbeer's achievement Joseph Mazzini -- The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt Heinrich Heine -- Wagner as actor Friedrich Nietzsche -- Rossini's "Barber of Seville" Stendhal -- The Russian school Hugo Wolf -- Some premieres -- Johann Strauss in London Ignaz Moscheles -- Fiasco in the White House John Hill Hewitt -- The first Handel festival Charles Burney -- Beethoven's "Third" and "Fifth" Various hands -- First baton in London Louis Spohr -- "La traviata" in Venice Giuseppe Verdi and Louis Engel -- "Boris Godunov" Vladimir Stassov -- Bizet's "L'Arlesienne" Lafcadio Hearn -- Brahms' Second symphony Eduard Hanslick -- The musical life -- Politics and patronage -- Art and revolution George Sand -- Statement to the Soviet Sergei Prokofiev -- An interview with the police Hector Berlioz -- Patron and professional Moliere -- The Jenny Lind enterprise P.T. Barnum -- An opera is rehearsed Leo Tolstoy -- Coaching the aspirant James Agate -- When to applaud Hugo Wolf -- Rameau's nephew Denis Diderot -- Cabals and cantatori Max Maretzek -- What gives us pause Bernard van Dieren and Ferruccio Busoni -- Apropos of instruments -- The organ blower's complaint Thomas Hardy -- The Russian horn Arthur Schopenhauer -- Of bells Chateaubriand -- The solitary cello Charles Dickens -- The flute Hector Berlioz -- An instrument for war and peace Jeremy Collier -- The concert hall Frederic Harrison -- The barrel organ Princess Lieven -- Music on records B.H. Haggin -- Notes on drums Tom S. Wotton -- The orchestra Anonymous -- Fantasies and confessions -- Sonata form in food W.F. Apthorp -- A chapter on ears Charles Lamb -- The prayer from "Moses" Gioacchino Rossini -- Musical memories Leigh Hunt -- The value of a deaf left ear Jean-Paul Richter -- My taste in classics P.I. Tchaikovsky -- Music and my father Benvenuto Cellini and Michel de Montaigne -- A cantata, with comments by other hands Jonathan Swift -- Musical brows Rudolf Kassner -- My life and works Modeste Moussorgsky -- Sing for your life Brillat-Savarin -- Correspondence -- Johann Sebastian Bach ; -- Lord Chesterfield ; -- Empress Maria Theresa and Count de Mercy-Argenteau ; -- The Mozarts ; -- Christoph Willibald Gluck ; -- Joseph Haydn ; -- Thomas Jefferson ; -- Napoleon ; -- Lord Byron ; -- Ludwig van Beethoven ; -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes ; -- The Mendelssohns ; -- Carl-Maria von Weber ; -- Robert Schumann ; -- Anonymous ; -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; -- Nicolo Paganini ; -- Johannes Brahms ; -- Edgar Allan Poe ; -- Charles Baudelaire ; -- Alexander Borodin ; -- Emmanuel Chabrier ; -- Sydney Smith ; -- Giuseppe Verdi ; -- Franz Schubert -- Maxims and good stories -- Wisdom and faith ; -- Derision and invective ; -- Taradiddle ; -- Classic tales ; -- Envoy.

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