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Author: Linda Hutcheon
ISBN: 9780226420684

de Linda Hutcheon; Michael Hutcheon

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Título Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
Autor Linda Hutcheon; Michael Hutcheon
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición Reprint
Páginas 176
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial University of Chicago Press
Fecha de publicación 2016-11-04
Ilustrado Sí
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9780226420684 / 022642068X
Peso 0.54 libras (0.24 kg)
Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.37 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.94 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code 780.92

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Linda Hutcheon is university professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto and the author of many books on contemporary culture and theory. Michael Hutcheon is a pulmonologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Together they have written several books on opera and medical culture, most recently Opera: The Art of Dying.

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Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13

9780226420684 / 022642068x

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Paperback / softback. New. Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world's greatest composers. Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901), Richard Strauss (1864 1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908 92), and Benjamin Britten (1913 76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi's Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard Wagner's influence by introducing young Italian composers to a new model of national music. Strauss, on the other hand, struggling with personal and political problems in Nazi Germany, composed the self-reflexive Capriccio, a "life review" of opera and his own legacy. Though it exhausted him physically and emotionally, Messiaen at the age of seventy-five finished his only… Leer más