| Uniform title | Essays. Selections. English |
| Series |
Musicians on music ; no. 6
Musicians on music ; no. 6. ^A287272
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: Szymanowski's life and thought -- Part one: On critics and criticism. On contemporary musical opinion in Poland ; 'My splendid isolation' ; 'I will leave my rocky entrenchment....' -- Part two: On folk-music and nationalism. Antena chez Karol Szymanowski ; On highland music ; The ethnic question in relation to contemporary music ; A footnote to 'Stabat mater' -- Part three: On nineteenth-century music. Romanticism in the present era ; On Romanticism in music ; Fryderyk Chopin -- Part four: On twentieth-century music. Karol Szymanowski on contemporary music ; The highways and byways of contemporary music ; On the work of Wagner, Strauss and Schoenberg ; Igor Stravinsky ; On the musical life of Paris ; Maurice Ravel on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday ; Paul Dukas 'Tel qu'en lui-meme enfin....' ; The future of culture -- Part five: On education. A new spirit in the Warsaw Conservatory ; The generation war between old and young musicians and the conflict between their creative outlooks ; The vicissitudes of the Warsaw conservatory ; The opening of the State Academy of Music in Warsaw ; The dispute over the Academy ; The educational role of musical culture in society -- Part six: On the composer's life. Introduction to my memoirs ; Karol Szymanowski ; In memory of Pawel Kochanski -- Appendix: Catalogue of Karol Szymanowski's writings. |
| Abstract |
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. Szymanowski was also a considerable thinker on musical topics: the role of music in society, the goal of musical education, the purpose of criticism, the nature of Romanticism, the hallmarks of national identity--indeed, he was passionately concerned with the emergence of the Polish voice in music, and the role of Chopin in particular. This book is the first comprehensive selection of his writings to be published in English. It contains all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews, throws light on the trying conditions under which he was obliged to work in the 1920s and '30s, especially in education, and gives perceptive assessments of the work of some of the major composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--Wagner, Strauss, Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie and others--and the trends they embodied. |
| General note | "Catalogue of Karol Szymanowski's writings": pages 359-369. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373) and index. |
| Language | Translated from the Polish. |
| ISBN | 0907689388 |
| ISBN | 0907689396 (pbk) |
