A Sound Tradition. Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz
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Название: A Sound Tradition

Автор: Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz

Издательство: Bookwire

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isbn: 9783903083851

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      Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz

      A Sound Tradition

      A SHORT HISTORY OF THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

      Translation from the German by John Hargraves

      With 99 illustrations

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      To the memory of Ernst Ottensamer (1955-2017)

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      © 2017 by Amalthea Signum Verlag, Wien

      All rights reserved

      Original title: Das Orchester, das niemals schläft

      Editing: Murray G. Hall

      Cover Design: Elisabeth Pirker/OFFBEAT

      Cover photo: The New Year’s Concert 2017,

      conducted by Gustavo Dudamel © Wiener Philharmoniker/Terry Linke

      Graphic Design: VerlagsService Dietmar Schmitz GmbH, Heimstetten

      Typeset in 11,5/15 pt Minion Pro

      Designed in Austria, printed in the EU

      ISBN 978-3-99050-109-2

      eISBN 978-3-903083-85-1

      Content

       Foreword

       Andreas Großbauer

       Greetings

       Heinz Fischer

       The Vienna Philharmonic Society

       Marifé Hernández

       A Tour

       A Stroll through Vienna and through the History of an Orchestra

       Old and New Home

       Founding and Establishing the Orchestra (1842-1870)

       The “Golden Era“…

       …began in the Golden Hall (1870-1897)

       Mahler and the Consequences

       The New Century (1897-1933)

       The Burden of History and the Dawn of a New Age

       Fascism, War and Reconstruction (1933-1955)

       Sound and Tradition

       What Makes the Vienna Philharmonic What It Is

       “How Do I Get to the Philharmonic?”

       And: How the Philharmonic Got to Where It Is

       An International Orchestra

       Today and Tomorrow

       The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

       Members in the Jubilee Season 2016/2017

       Literature

       Photo credits

       Index of persons

      Foreword

      This year, the year of 2017, our orchestra is celebrating a special birthday. One hundred seventy-five years ago the Vienna Philharmonic was founded in Vienna, that city of music which has always attracted and been home to important composers and musicians. This anniversary is an appropriate occasion to trace the traditions and present-day challenges of our orchestra in a literary way. The well-known Austrian writer on musical matters, Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz, has taken on this task, and with the present book A Sound Tradition he has written a short history in facts, pictures and anecdotes. (The German title is Das Orchester, das niemals schläft—The Orchestra that Never Sleeps).

      This same vitality that he ascribes to the orchestra in the original title is evident in his book. For Wagner-Trenkwitz takes his readers on a journey in a very charming and knowledgeable way. This way first leads us to a place where the orchestra was founded and which appears in the name of the orchestra as a sort of seal of quality: Vienna. If you take this walk through Vienna СКАЧАТЬ