Deryck Cooke (1919–1976)
Autor/a de I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring
Obres de Deryck Cooke
The New Grove Late Romantic Masters: Bruckner, Brahms, Dvorak, Wolf (Composer Biography Series) (1985) 17 exemplars
An introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen: Being an explanation and analysis of Wagner's system of leitmotifs (Mes (1968) 15 exemplars
The Bruckner problem simplified 1 exemplars
Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911: A companion to the BBC's celebrations of the centenary of his birth (1960) 1 exemplars
The Language of Music. 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra op. 56 [sound recording] (1995) — Notes, algunes edicions — 30 exemplars
English National Opera Guide : Stravinsky : Oedipus Rex : The rake's progress (1991) — Traductor — 20 exemplars
BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 33 : Mahler, Schubert and Glanert [programme] (2019) — Traductor — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Cooke, Deryck
- Data de naixement
- 1919-09-14
- Data de defunció
- 1976-10-27
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- England
UK - Lloc de naixement
- Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Croydon, Greater London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Educació
- Wyggeston Grammar School
University of Cambridge - Professions
- musician
musicologist
broadcaster - Organitzacions
- British Broadcasting Corporation
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Ressenyes
Llistes
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 322
- Popularitat
- #73,505
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 21
- Preferit
- 3
I can't help feeling what remains is a tantalising glimpse of what might have been. Interesting though some of Cooke's writings on the texts is, the book seems to move to another more exalted plain virtually every time he talks about the music. He does so with an acute combination of musicological, literary and psychological analysis but in the book as is, there are only short sections and fragments of such writing, which offer a taste of what could have been one of the truly great and definitive works on the Ring and Wagner. I should add that in order for that to happen he would also necessarily have had to strike a balance between being dutifully completist and commenting on the aspects of the work which seemed of particular interest and importance to him. As it stands, there is a bit too much of the former as the book gets into the detailed commentaries on the Rhinegold and Valkyrie texts.… (més)