"New Ears for New Music" von Constantin Floros, ins Englische übersetzt von Kenneth Chalmers, ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Entwicklung und dem Verständnis moderner Musik beschäftigt. Floros, ein renommierter Musikwissenschaftler,...

Gegenstand dieses Bandes ist nicht bloß das symphonische Schaffen Mahlers, sondern die symphonische Musik seit Beethoven. Der Verfasser lässt sich von den Auffassungen leiten, dass die Symphonik Mahlers nur dann hinreichend beleuchtet...

Insbesondere das symphonische Werk Gustav Mahlers gehört bis heute zum festen Repertoire der großen Konzerthäuser. Mit Constantin Floros bietet ein international renommierter Mahler-Experte einen biographischen Überblick über Mahlers...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and source editions, this book demonstrates the close interrelationship between Tchaikovsky's life and his work. The author...

Johannes Brahms was until now widely regarded as the archetype of the «absolute musician». Based on new research, the study shows how close autobiographic and poetic elements are in fact linked to his oeuvre. Like Robert Schumann, Brahms...

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical,...

In the last third of the 19 century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later?...

Five kondakarian manuscripts dating from the 11 to 13 century belong among the oldest witnesses of Russian church music. The Slavonic church texts are accompanied by a peculiar notation which represents the most complex notational system...

Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his...