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A Shorter Bad Boy of Music

Peters' book decodes George Antheil's "Bad Boy" memoirs. Truth and fiction dance like his music: brilliant, provocative, full of twists and turns!

9,50 €

Kranichsteiner Gespenster / Specters of Kranichstein

This volume evokes the repressed spirit of criticism in Darmstadt.

8,99 € – 12,00 €

La musique, c’est moi!

Boulez wrote polemically and precisely. Driven by the desire to rethink music.

10,00 €

Spiel mir das Lied von Giacomo

Puccini, charming and melodious, shapes opera films and Hollywood soundtracks; Busoni, on the other hand, provokes modernism with visions of a new aesthetic.

9,50 €

Habe nun ach! Philosophie

From buffo-philosopher to musical theater hero - thinkers heard anew on the opera stage.

9,50 €

Zur Überlieferung der Klänge

Peter Hirsch considers the extent to which Benjamin's concept of "transmissibility" can be significant for musical tradition.

9,50 €

Camille Saint-Saëns

"I, on the other hand, pursued the chimera of purity of style and perfection of form", Saint-Saëns wrote in 1885, directing his "énergie intellectuelle" towards classicism in the midst of romantic seduction.

9,50 €

Parlez-moi d’amour

French chansons from the years 1870 to 1940 impressively embody the painful times of social upheaval.

9,50 €

Die Avantgarde war ein Irrtum

A life between musical avant-garde, political exile and sharp-tongued mockery.

9,00 €

Cosmic Dreamscapes

This volume is dedicated to the enigmatic work of Charles Ives - between American utopianism and European compositional tradition.

9,50 €

Sighing For The Silvery Moon

Music hall songs are time capsules that reflect the former hopes and character of a nation.

9,50 €

Musikalische Heimatkonstruktionen

The study shows how music shapes the concept of 'home' and cultural identity. Various aesthetic approaches are analyzed based on works by Heuckes and Neuwirth.

9,00 €

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung

Three authors whose works are pervaded by music in unexpected ways.

9,00 €

Lücken im Ablauf

Reflections on the unpredictable in musical art since Mozart.

9,00 €

„… one more step on the road to understanding humanity“

This study examines how music is staged in the Star Trek series as an integral part of a humanistic vision of the future.

9,00 €

Musikalisches Brot

From Wagner's vision of a better world order to the radical ideas of the brilliant dilettante Jean Cocteau.

9,50 €