Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler by Lambert, Sterling

Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler

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Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler by Lambert, Sterling

Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler

¥57,821

Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler

¥57,821
Author: Sterling Lambert
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.

In his views on the music of other composers, Benjamin Britten had strong preferences, and his particularly active life as a performer meant that these preferences were often expressed in his programming choices, in particular for his own Aldeburgh Festival. Six composers in particular (Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi and Mahler) received special attention and two others Verdi and Mahler) received as much as possible given the limitations of resources at the Festival.

He also showed his admiration for these composers in the way in which he allowed these programmed works to influence his own compositions. This book frames discussion of each composer and his influence around the relationship between a particular work by Britten and a particular one by the composer concerned that was performed by Britten at approximately the same time.

Thus, Britten's Second String Quartet (1945) is compared with Purcell's "Chacony in G minor". The chamber operas The Rape of Lucretia (1946) and Albert Herring (1947) owe much to Verdi's Otello and Falstaff. The song cycle "Winter Words" (1953) relates to Schubert's "Winterreise". War Requiem (1962) is influenced by Bach's two Passions. "Night Piece" for piano (1963) connects to the second "Nachtmusik" from Mahler's Seventh Symphony. Finally, parallels exist between the opera Death in Venice (1973) and Mozart's Idomeneo.



Author: Sterling Lambert
Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
Published: 05/24/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781638040682

About the Author
Sterling Lambert was born and raised in the United Kingdom, completing a BA and MPhil in music at Cambridge University before moving to the United States and completing a PhD in music history at Yale University. After brief teaching engagements at Tufts and Harvard Universities, he is currently Associate Professor of Music at St. Mary's College of Maryland, serving as Chair of the new Performing Arts Department and teaching music history and theory. In addition to Britten's Gods (Clemson UP 2023), he has conducted recent research on the relationship between Britten's first and last operas, as well as his attitude to nuclear warfare as expressed through his music.

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