The image of God in man (The Fontana library of theology and philosophy)

CAIRNS, David

Religion & Spirituality

Collins

Mozart and His Operas

David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart’s operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart’s unusual childhood as a musical prodigy touring Europe as a performer from an early age is well known. But even more remarkable is that the genius grew up, surviving his unnatural early years and producing works of increasing maturity and originality. Using the operas as his guide, Cairns traces the steady deepening of Mozart’s musical style from his beginnings as a child prodigy, through his coming of age with what Cairns sees as the most Romantic and forward-looking of all Mozart’s operas, Idomeneo, the later genius displayed in the three comic operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, and in The Magic Flute, the final and greatest triumph of his career.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Uk

Berlioz: The Making of an Artist 1803-1832

Penguin

Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. Yet throughout his life he struggled for money and his music was persistently reviled in his native France. With exceptional insight and sympathy, David Cairns draws together the major strands of Berlioz's life: his tempestuous marriage to the actress Harriet Smithson; the genesis of his famous works, including the Requiem, Romeo and Juliet and his crowning masterpiece The Trojans; his friendships with Mendelssohn, Liszt, Princess Wittgenstein and Wagner; and, finally, his last years haunted once again by personal tragedy. Here, as never before, is Berlioz the artist - and the man.

Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness 1832-1869

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in brown cloth boards with gilt title on spine and dust jacket which is a little rubbed. Berlioz: 1803-1832: the making of an artist. 586 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims., music, port.s ; 24 cm.. . Includes index. Bibliography: p. 506-510

Berlioz, 1803-1832: the making of an srtist

Andre Deutsch

Responses

Arts & Photography

Music

Da Capo Press

David Cairns explains the challenge posed by the theology of Rudolf Bultmann in an accessible way and outlines its relevance for preachers.

A Gospel without Myth?: Bultmann's Challenge to the Preacher (Preacher's Library)

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

Responses: musical essays and reviews

Knopf: distributed by Random House

Secker and Warburg

This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding of the humanity of his subject, David Cairns's book provides a full account of this extraordinary and powerfully attractive man. Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography. In researching Berlioz's life, Cairns has had access to unpublished family papers, and in Volume I he is able to portray all the people close to Berlioz in his boyhood, and to evoke a detailed picture of their lives in and around La Côte St.-André in the foothills of the French Alps. No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz, whose passionate sensibility began to absorb the material of his art long before he had heard any musical ensemble other than the local town band. Volume I also traces the student years in Paris and Italy and discusses Berlioz's three great love affairs, shedding remarkable light on his later character and development. Volume I ends on the afternoon of December 9, 1832, the day of the concert that launched the composer's career.

Berlioz: Volume One: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832

University of California Press

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