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| Teaching New Classicality |
| Ferruccio Busoni's Master Class in Composition |
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Europäische Hochschulschriften
Reihe 36: Musikwissenschaft  Vol. 152 |
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| Year of Publication: 1996 |
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| Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien, 1996. 336 pp., 10 mus. ex. |
| ISBN 978-3-631-49230-7 pb. |
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| Book synopsis |
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| Ferruccio Busoni's master class in composition in Berlin from 1921 to 1924 has long been a neglected aspect of Busoni research. This study fills that lacuna by reconstructing the master class and Busoni's teachings of New Classicality on the basis of extensive archival research. Unpublished correspondence, writings, musical manuscripts, governmental records, and diaries, as well as the stories told by surviving students served as primary sources in establishing the cultural, political, and economic context of the master class, examining its educational content, and evaluating Busoni's relationships with and possible influence on students such as Kurt Weill and Wladimir Vogel. The resulting story offers new light on a vital aspect of cultural life in Berlin during the early Weimar Republic. |
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| Contents |
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| Contents: Musical Life in Berlin around 1920 - The Politicisation of Music in the Early Weimar Republic - The Role of Leo Kestenberg - The Teachings of New Classicality - Kurt Weill - Wladimir Vogel - The Objective Setting of Texts - Busoni's Personal and Professional Crisis - Swiss Students in Berlin: Robert Blum, Luc Balmer, and Walther Geiser - The Classical Goal: Opera - The Role of Piano Performance in the Master Class - Busoni's Final Illness - Consequences of the Master Class. |
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| Reviews |
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«Weill scholars should be enormously grateful to Tamara Levitz for setting the record straight, with the fullest documentation conceivable, on an area hitherto only sketchily researched and understood.» (Stephen Hinton, Kurt Weill Newsletter)
«Levitz skillfully navigates her way through the complex array of information and succeeds in creating a study that...will take its place among the significant Busoni literature.» (Daniel M. Raessler, Notes)
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| About the author(s)/editor(s) |
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| The Author: Tamara Levitz was born in Montréal, Canada. After completing a Master of Arts in Musicology, French Literature, and German Literature at the Technische Universität in Berlin, she attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she received her Ph.D. in Musicology in 1994. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Musicology at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. |
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