Helen Loeb Kaufmann
Auteur de The Story of Mozart
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Helen Loeb Kaufmann
Mozart 3 exemplaires
From Jehovah to Jazz: Music in American from Psalmody to the Present Day (Essay and general literature index reprint… (1969) 2 exemplaires
The Story of One Hundred Great Composers 2 exemplaires
Historien om Ludwig van Beethoven 1 exemplaire
Anvil chorus; the story of Giuseppe Verdi 1 exemplaire
Stories of 100 Operas 1 exemplaire
4 Book Set: The Little History of Music; copyright 1949, The Little Guide to Music Appreciation; copyright 1948, The… 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Brill's Companion to Statius (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2015) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1887-02-02
- Date de décès
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
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Critiques
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- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 576
- Popularité
- #43,502
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 16
- Langues
- 1
Still, writing music came easily to him, to an extent that he himself didn't seem to entirely understand. "I compose as a sow piddles," he once wrote with characteristic humor. (Compare this with Tchaikovsky's wonderfully disciplined account of the creative process: "I am at my desk at 9 o'clock every morning, and my muse has learned to be prompt.")
And his music is just as magical as his mind. Analysts armed with sophisticated explanatory tools can make the works of Bach and Beethoven, Wagner and Stravinsky yield up their secrets while Mozart's sorcery remains elusive.
There is something about all of this that is both marvelous and maddening, and it reduces even determined rationalists to gibbering about miracles. In the face of a great performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" or the G-Minor String Quintet, the famous line from Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" about Mozart "taking dictation from God" can sometimes have the ring of truth.… (plus d'informations)