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Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915-1925
- Author: Kelly, Barbara L.
- Author: Mawer, Deborah
- Author: Moore, Rachel
- Author: Sadler, Graham
The work - of exceptional erudition, drawing on fascinating sources - offers an unprecedented perspective on a music publisher, going well beyond the current state of the art. L'ouvrage, d'un...
Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915-1925
- Author: Kelly, Barbara L.
- Author: Mawer, Deborah
- Author: Moore, Rachel
- Author: Sadler, Graham
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The work - of exceptional erudition, drawing on fascinating sources - offers an unprecedented perspective on a music publisher, going well beyond the current state of the art. L'ouvrage, d'un...
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Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition Classique. French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'classics', primarily for piano. Among these editors were Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel and Dukas; the objects of their enquiries included core works by Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Presenting six composer-editor case studies, the volume shows that the French 'accent', both musical and cultural, upon this predominantly Austro-German music was highly varied. Editorial responses range from scholarly approaches to those directed by performance or compositional agendas, and from pan-European to strongly patriotic stances. Intriguing intersections are revealed between old and new, and between French and cross-European canons. Beyond editing, the book explores the Édition's role in pedagogy and performance, including by pianists Robert Casadesus and Yvonne Loriod, and in the reassertion of contemporary French composition, especially regarding innovation around neoclassicism. It will interest a wide readership, including musicologists, performers and concert-goers, cultural historians and other humanities scholars.
Contents
- Introduction
- PART I . DURAND AND HIS EDITION CLASSIQUE 1 The Historical Evolution of the Edition Classique Graham Sadler 2 Charting the Edition: Production Data, Musical Contents and Relationships Deborah Mawer and Graham Sadler
- PART II . COMPOSER-EDITOR CASE STUDIES 3 'De-Germanising' Music Publishing: Dukas's Beethoven in Wartime France Rachel Moore 4 Mozart as 'Classic' in Early Twentieth-Century France: The Case of Saint-Saens's Mozart Editions Barbara L. Kelly 5 Making Mende
- Appendix Debussy-Chopin entries in the Livres de cotage (1919-90s) Barbara L. Kelly
- PART III . BEYOND EDITING: PEDAGOGY, PERFORMANCE, COMPOSITION 9 The Edition Classique in Action: Pedagogy and Performance Rachel Moore and Barbara L. Kelly 10 The Edition Classique and French Neoclassicism: L'Ecole moderne as Exemplar
- Appendix Alphabetical tabulation of composers and pieces Deborah Mawer Afterword Select
- Bibliography
- Index
Awards and reviews
Revue de musicologie
The work - of exceptional erudition, drawing on fascinating sources - offers an unprecedented perspective on a music publisher, going well beyond the current state of the art. L'ouvrage, d'un niveau d'érudition exceptionnel, explorant des sources passionnantes, offre une vue sans précédent sur un éditeur de musique, allant bien audelà de l'état de l'art
