{"product_id":"slavonic-and-romantic-music-9780571302802","title":"Slavonic and Romantic Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gerald Abraham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Faber Finds\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Faber Finds\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first published in 1968), one of exceptional breadth and fascination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subjects range from the relationship of Slavonic music to the western world, to detailed essays on figures such as Chopin, Dvorak, Rubinstein and Mussorgsky. A study of realism in Janacek's operas contains a particularly fine analysis of \u003ci\u003eFrom a House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and there is an account of the fantastic 'erotic diary' for piano in which Zdenek Fibich, one of the finest nineteenth-century Czech symphonists, recorded the secrets of his love affair with former student and librettist Aneka Schulzova.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gerald Abraham (1904-1988) was a distinguished musicologist, among his official posts those of Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and Assistant Controller of Music at the BBC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber Finds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47597342556311,"sku":"9780571302802","price":2565.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780571302802.webp?v=1774997082","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/slavonic-and-romantic-music-9780571302802","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}