Scarecrow Press
Pages: 126
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-8108-5125-2 • Hardback • November 2004 • $72.00 • (£55.00)
978-1-4616-1214-8 • eBook • November 2004 • $68.00 • (£52.00)
James A. Grymes is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and President of the International Dohnányi Research Center.
Part 1 Examples
Part 2 Figures
Part 3 Tables
Part 4 Preface
Part 5 Perspectives on Dohnanyi's Life
Chapter 6 Ernst von Dohnanyi: A Tribute
Chapter 7 Ernst von Dohnanyi: A Portrait
Chapter 9 Dohnanyi and Great Britain
Chapter 10 Historical Documents: Bela Bartok on Dohnanyi
Part 11 Perspectives on Dohnanyi as a Composer
Chapter 12 Transcending the Piano: Orchestral and Improvisational Elements in Dohnanyi's Piano Music
Chapter 13 Self-Identification in the Romantic Tradition: Dohnanyi's Winterreigen, Op. 13
Chapter 14 Dohnanyi's Six Concert Etudes, Op. 28: Context and Content
Chapter 15 Compositional Process in Dohnanyi's Symphony in E Major, Op. 40
Chapter 16 Dohnanyi's American Rhapsody, Op. 47: An Emigre's Tribute to the New World
Chapter 17 Historical Documents: Dohnanyi on Music
Part 18 Perspectives on Dohnanyi as a Person
Chapter 19 Message to Posterity
Chapter 20 Dohnanyi at Tallahassee: A Personal Reminiscence
Chapter 21 Memories of Dohnanyi
Chapter 22 Dohnanyi as a Teacher
Chapter 23 Historical Documents: Dohanyi on Teaching
Part 24 Index
Part 25 About the Contributors
In 1920 Béla Bartók wrote: 'Musical life in Budapest today may be summed up in one name—Dohnyányi.' This giant of 20th-century Hungarian music, as composer, pianist, conductor and teacher, is largely forgotten today. Only one or two of his compositions are occasionally played, while there are few recordings of his phenomenal instrumental artistry. However, this valuable book should inspire many readers to listen to some of his major works, and to seek out the two CDs of Dohnyányi the pianist issued in 2004....James Grymes comments: 'Ilona [the composer's third wife] projected on to the text the image of Dohnyányi as she wanted him to be remembered and then put his name to it.' Nevertheless, her portrait of a man of honesty, generosity, courage (when confronted by Nazism), moral strength and integrity is corroborated many times over throughout this indispensable book.
— Classical Music