From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their ArtMason, Daniel Gregory
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From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Composers -- Biography; Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.--Dvořák's fecundity is surprising. He has
written cantatas, oratorios, a mass, a requiem, and hymns for chorus
and orchestra; five symphonies, five overtures, four symphonic
poems, the well-known Slavonic Dances and Rhapsodies, concertos for
piano, violin, and violoncello, the inimitable Suite, op. 39, the
Symphonic Variations, op. 78, and other orchestral works of smaller
proportions; seven string quartets, a sextet, three trios, a terzetto
for two violins and a viola, two string quintets, a piano quintet, a
piano quartet, a sonata for violin and piano, and a serenade for wind
instruments; and, finally, many piano works and songs. He is at his
best in his orchestral and chamber works, of which the following are
typical: the Slavonic Dances, op. 46 and 72, the Slavonic Rhapsodies,
op. 45, the Suite, op. 59, the Symphony, «From the New World,» op. 95,
and the Scherzo Capriccioso, op. 66; the Sextet, op. 48, the Quartet
and Quintet on negro themes, op. 96 and 97, the Piano Quintet, op.
81, and the Piano Quintet, op. 87. Though these compositions lose
much in transcription, they are all obtainable in four-hand piano
arrangements. The piano music is somewhat unidiomatic except the later
things, but the Mazurkas, op. 56, the Poetische Stimmungsbilder, op.
85, and the Humoreskes, op. 101, are worth knowing. Of the songs, nine
of the best are published separately by the house of Simrock, and the
two most popular ones, «Gute Nacht» and «Als die Alte Mutter,» are to
be had in Schirmer's series entitled «Gems of German Songs.» A study
of these will probably arouse a desire for more, and the student may
buy the Gipsy Songs, op. 55, and the Love Songs, op. 83. The duets,
«Klänge aus Mähren,» not very well known, are characteristic.
FOOTNOTES:
[D] A graphic picture of the sleepy little place is given in the essay
on Dvořák in «Studies in Modern Music,» W. H. Hadow, Second Series.
Macmillan, New York, 1894.
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