Caprices

The Caprices series brings together short texts with a big impact: incisive essays, reflections, sketches, and flights of fancy about listening to, thinking about, and living with music. Open, ongoing, always surprising.

Book Cover: The Audible Act of Listening

Das hörbare Hören

Five inspections of the composed playing field. By Jan Kopp.

9,50 €
Book cover: “Everything Comes to Light”

„Alles kommt ans Licht“

A self-portrait of a composer: Rihm on his origins, attitude and artistic thinking.

9,50 €
Book cover: “You’re the violinist here, aren’t you!”

„Sie sind doch hier der Geiger!“

Rolf Müller-Blagovich remembers his time in the centers of new music after 1945 - before his work as concertmaster in Münster and Essen.

10,00 €
Book cover: Guernica

Guernica

This study analyzes Picasso’s masterpiece as an aesthetically multifaceted response to total destruction and examines its impact within the context of abstract expressionism and political iconography.

9,00 €
Book cover: An Evening at La Scala

Abends in die Scala

"Loge und Liebe": When operatic sound ignites the art of storytelling and literature becomes a stage.

9,00 €
Book Cover: The Moving Sound

Der bewegliche Klang

The texts examine the changes and continuities of a 'tone of resistenza' in Nono's early work.

9,00 €
Book cover: If It Weren’t for the Music

Wenn die Musik nicht wär’

Texts on Liszt, Verdi, and Hesse: Wolzogen parodies the Liszt myth, Werfel sparks the Verdi renaissance, Hesse's Glass Bead Game remains a pale utopia.

8,00 €
Book Cover: From Sorrow to Song

Vom Leid zum Lied

Between Stage Glory and Failure: Three Artists' Fates, Between Pathos and Parody.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Parisian Portraits

Pariser Portraits

Caprices 8 looks back on the turbulent era of art in Paris between the Belle Époque and the 1920s.

12,00 €
Book Cover: The Language of Hate

Die Sprache des Hasses

Analysis of Wagner's pamphlet as an example of ethnic hate speech and rhetorical structure in the context of 19th-century German cultural nationalism.

8,00 €
Book Cover: Oceanic Feeling

Ozeanisches Gefühl

Theodor Fontane and Romain Rolland on Richard Wagner and Ludwig van Beethoven.

8,00 €
Book Cover: The Zemlinsky Sound

Der Zemlinsky-Ton

Caprices 6 revolves around the "genuine Zemlinsky tone" so beloved by Alban Berg.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Music as History – History as Music

Musik als Geschichte – Geschichte als Musik

In Caprices 4, Stefan Litwin uncovers a sounding autobiography in Schönberg's piano concerto.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Time Pierced

Die durchbohrte Zeit

Caprices 3 contains observations of works from the perspective and practice of a conductor.

8,00 €
Book cover: Moses Fantasy

Moses-Fantasie

An introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.

8,00 €
Book cover: “Followed by German songs”

„Dem folgt deutscher Gesang“

Adorno's miniature on Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz is more than a tribute—it is an artful, yet ambivalent declaration of love.

8,00 €

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