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Witnesses and Scholars

Studies in Musical Biography

By: H. Lenneberg

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Hardcover | 1 January 1988 | Edition Number 1

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236 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.42

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This book presents musical biographies as part of the history of musicology, reflecting the advances history and analysis have made in the last two hundred years. Lenneberg examines a sorely neglected subject - the history and changing pattern of biographical and autobiographical writings. By focusing on composers rather than singers or instrumentalists, Lenneberg necessarily deals with not just the telling of a life but also with two equally important topics; the evaluation of a composer's musical accomplishments and the social setting in which artistic creativity takes place. Lenneberg also discusses the relationship between a composer's life and his work, the difficulty of writing and reading musical descriptions, and the development of romanticized biographies in the 19th century from the factual accounts of the composers' lives that were common before 1750.

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