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20%OFFLinda Hutcheon - Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten - 9780226420684 - V9780226420684
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Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

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Description for Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AVGC5; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 245.
Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world's greatest composers. Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901), Richard Strauss (1864 1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908 92), and Benjamin Britten (1913 76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi's Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard Wagner's influence by introducing young Italian composers to a new model ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226420684
SKU
V9780226420684
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Ref
99-50

About Linda Hutcheon
Linda Hutcheon is university professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto and the author of many books on contemporary culture and theory. Michael Hutcheon is a pulmonologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Together they have written several books on opera and medical culture, most recently Opera: The Art of Dying.

Reviews for Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
Four Last Songs takes its readers on a vivid musicological journey across the rhythms of tradition and discords of modernity to arrive at the late careers of Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten, whose operas tell big stories about nation and identity, finitude and transcendence. Bravo to the Hutcheons for bringing their historical discoveries and brilliant sense of the unexplored ... Read more

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