Hans von Bülow : a life for music /

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Author / Creator:Birkin, Kenneth.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:xvii, 715 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8456832
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ISBN:9781107005860 (hardback)
1107005868 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations of sources quoted in the text
  • Principal libraries consulted
  • 1. Overture: Dresden, Leipzig, Stuttgart (1830-1848)
  • 2. The student years: Leipzig, Berlin (1848-1850)
  • 3. Decision time: Weimar, Zurich (1850-1851)
  • 4. Weimar apprenticeship (1851-1853)
  • 5. The young virtuoso: Austro-Hungary (1853-1854)
  • 6. Polish interlude: Chocieszewice (1854-1855)
  • 7. The pedagogue: Berlin 1 (1855-1857)
  • 8. 'Gallant Hotspur': Berlin n (1857-1859)
  • 9. Rebel maturity: Berlin in (1859-1864)
  • 10. The Wagner years: Munich (1864-1869)
  • 11. A new start: Florence (1869-1873)
  • 12. Triumph and betrayal - on tour: England and Russia (1873-1875)
  • 13. Transatlantic adventure (1875-1876)
  • 14. Convalescent interlude (June 1876 - September 1877)
  • 15. Bülow redux: Hanover, Glasgow (1877-1878)
  • 16. Kapellmeister in Hanover (1877-1879)
  • 17. Intendant in Meiningen (1880-1885)
  • 18. The Philharmonic Years I: Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin (1886-1889)
  • 19. The Philharmonic Years II: America again, domestic crisis (1889-1890)
  • 20. The Philharmonic Years III: Hamburg, Berlin (1890-1892)
  • 21. The Philharmonic Years IV: finale (1892-1894)
  • Afterword: Bülow and Bayreuth
  • Appendix: Bülow performance chronology
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index