Chris Walton

In Zurich, 1916, war is raging across Europe and artists, revolutionaries, and many people of questionable character have fled to Switzerland. While carnage reigns across the border, aesthetic and political battles are being fought in the coffee houses and Dada cabarets, until a shocking series of murders leaves a trail of bloodless corpses.

A Novel

Sound Bites

Novel Inspirations

Presents case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Wagner, Mahler, Furtwängler, R. Strauss, and Berg -- examining how the supposedly extrarational world of creative inspiration intersects with the highly rational world of money and politics.

Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg

Lies and Epiphanies

Antonio Baldassarre

Proceedings of a symposium held July 9, 2000 in the Hotel Bellevue in Braunwald, Switzerland, organized by the Hans Schaeuble Stiftung, Zentralbibliothek Zeurich, Schweizerischer Tonkeunstlerverein, and Musikwoche Braunwald.

die Schweiz und das Ausland 1918-1945

Musik im Exil

Stephanus Muller

During the past two decades, the study of sexuality and gender in music has become a decidedly mainstream activity. To be sure, music has long been obviously and intimately involved in matters pertaining to relations, both sexual and otherwise, between and amongst the sexes. Its use in courtship is the one that perhaps first comes to mind, this use being probably as old as music itself. This book contains all the papers presented at the conference by the same name.

Gender and Sexuality in South African Music

Grové was arguably the first composer to incorporate Black African elements into the fabric of his music, venturing far beyond mere couleur locale to forge a creative synthesis of the indigenous and the "Western". His vast oeuvre encompasses every genre, from opera and ballet to chamber music, orchestral works and song. But he is also a fine essayist, and his short fiction has received praise from André P. Brink. This is the first study of its kind to be devoted to a South African composer.

Essays on the Life and Work of Stefans Grové

A Composer in Africa

Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.

Life and Works

Othmar Schoeck

An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career.

The Muse of Place

Richard Wagner's Zurich

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