Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms
- Author: Pekacz, Jolanta T.
Musical Biography offers an excellent in-depth examination of past biographical practices in showcasing musical personalities and more recent approaches to the study of musical biography. This... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Jolanta T. Pekacz
- 'Renovating' Bach and Handel: new musical biographies in the German Democratic Republic, Toby Thacker
- The nation's property: Chopin's biography as a cultural discourse, Jolanta T. Pekacz
- Maurice Ravel: private life, public works, Steven Huebner
- Lingering legends: Liszt after Walker, Michael Saffle
- Fanny in Italy: the female composer as travel writer, Marian Wilson Kimber
- This is (y)our life: (re)writing women's autobiographies in music in 19th-century Germany, James Deaville
- Unremarkable musical lives: autobiographical narratives, music, and the shaping of the self, David Gramit
- A life on film: Renato Castellani's The Life of Verdi, John C. Tibbetts
- Bibliography
- Index.