Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds Volume 14

by Peter Franklin

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280393
• ISBN13: 9780520280397
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"