Othmar Schoeck : life and works /: life and works. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chris Walton.
• Other Names: Walton, Chris, 1963-
• Contents: Introduction : Schoeck and the Swiss -- Childhood and youth -- Wolf amidst the sheep -- Leipzig, Munich, and an awful little moustache -- Back in the fold -- Hermann Hesse, via the dentist -- Look back in melancholy -- Chamber music -- The art of counterpoint -- Busoni -- The picture on the wall -- Touch of Venus -- Silent bronze -- Sucking sweet folly -- Self portrait, with sandwich -- Elegy -- Goodbye to Geneva -- The bee in the rose -- Raging queen -- Storms in the pigeon loft -- Into the vortex -- Wrong-note rag -- Hildebill -- Variations and fugue on an age-old theme -- Put to the wheel -- Gisela -- Lost in the stars -- Whores and madonnas -- "-- he can write music all right-- " -- Tea with (Ms.) Hitler -- Aryanizing music -- Arms and the man -- Castles in the air -- Goering's bullshit -- Collapse -- The people at home -- The reckoning -- Transfigured summer nights -- Silent lights -- Fair measure -- Rather nice horn -- Sleepless in Wollishofen -- Echoes and elegies -- Running on empty -- Epilogue.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 447 pages), illustrations, music
• Subjects: 780.92; Composers -- Switzerland -- Biography; Compositeurs -- Suisse -- Biographies; MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians; MUSIC -- General; Composers; Switzerland; Biography; Biographies; Biographies; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781580467308
• Related ISBNs: 158046730X; 9781580463003; 1580463002
• Notes: Note: "Concise work catalogue and discography": pages 327-381; Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-411) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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