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The Loves of Great Composers
Gustav Kobbé
Book Overview:
Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather than the Brahms camp. His unusual style of writing and his strongly romantic take on the loves of these seven composers makes for entertaining listening, even though his facts and opinions may differ from more academic writers and biographers of these composers. Each composer occupies a section or chapter, with Wagner getting the fuller account in terms of length. In fact Gustav Kobbe claims he knew Liszt and Wagner as well as Cosima Wagner - so this must be quite original and authoritative. The 19C period and its atmosphere is conveyed by Kobbe's unusual sentence construction and reads more like story telling rather than a written work.
Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather than the Brahms camp. His unusual style of writing and his strongly romantic take on the loves of these seven composers makes for entertaining listening, even though his facts and opinions may differ from more academic writers and biographers of these composers. Each composer occupies a section or chapter, with Wagner getting the fuller account in terms of length. In fact Gustav Kobbe claims he knew Liszt and Wagner as well as Cosima Wagner - so this must be quite original and authoritative. The 19C period and its atmosphere is conveyed by Kobbe's unusual sentence construction and reads more like story telling rather than a written work.
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⭐️ 3/5
Đây thật sự là một cuốn sách khá là thử thách ( lúc mới bắt đầu đọc một vài ba quyển sách như mình ) bởi lẽ nó ghi về những nhạc sĩ huyền thoại có nhiều từ ngữ mà mình không hiểu được mà tác giả ko chú thích, có nhiều nhân vật mà rất khó nhớ tên và đôi khi tình yêu của
Sách chủ yếu viết về các nhà soạn nhạc thể kỷ 19 ở châu Âu. Cách viết có hơi một chiều. Đọc để biết thêm tên 1 số nhà soạn nhạc nổi tiếng.
The loves of the great composers that are described in this book are:
Mozart and his Constance
Beethoven and his "Immortal Beloved"
Mendelssohn and his Cecile
Chopin and the Countess Delphine Potocka
The Schumanns: Robert and Clara
Franz Liszt and his Carolyne
Wagner and Cosima
It was interesting, but not a
lots of romanticizing. i expected something more realistic & biographical, i guess.
Tác giả kể về những mối tình, những hậu phương để lại dấu ấn sâu đậm trong cuộc đời của các nhà soạn nhạc thiên tài bằng văn phong đầy chất thơ.
Cuốn sách giúp tôi không chỉ hiểu biết thêm về những người phụ nữ đã xuất hiện và ảnh hưởng đến các nhà nghệ sĩ thiên tài của thời đại, mà con giúp người đọ