UID:
almahu_9948368019502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 148 pages).
ISBN:
9780190611576 (ebook) :
Serie:
Oxford scholarship online
Inhalt:
This book highlights the unique insights that Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D Minor (op. 47) offers into the composer's musical imagination, violin virtuosity, and connections between violin-playing traditions. It discusses the concerto's cultural contexts, performers who are connected with its early history, and recordings of the work. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations to be a virtuoso player, the book traces the composition of the concerto at a dramatic political moment in Finnish history. This concerto was composed when Finland was going through a period of intense struggle for self-determination and protest against Russian imperial policies. Taking the concerto's historical context into consideration leads to a new paradigm of the 20th-century virtuoso as a political figure, which replaces 19th-century representations of the virtuoso as a magical figure.
Anmerkung:
Also issued in print: 2020.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version : ISBN 9780190611538
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
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