Gerald Abraham
Pictures at an Exhibition
...a diminuendo, suggesting the oxcart approaching, passing the listener, and then receding. Gerald Abraham provides the following details: "Trilby '' or ''The Demon of the Heath, a...
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The Five
...Borodin-the five who have come to be associated with the name "Mighty Handful", or sometimes "The Five". Gerald Abraham stated flatly in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that...
Gerald Abraham writes, "Taneyev had a dual nature rather like Lewis Carroll's, half mathematician, half humorist." Among Taneyev's unpublished works are reportedly various parodies, including "Quartets of Government Officials", "humorous choruses, comic fugues and variations, toy symphonies, a mock ballet for Tchaikovsky's birthday with an absurd scenario and music which is an ingenious contrapuntal pot-pourri of themes from Tchaikovsky's works...."
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Sergei Taneyev
...with beauty and expressiveness, Taneyev could also show a whimsical streak in his musical nature. Gerald Abraham writes, "Taneyev had a dual nature rather like Lewis Carroll's, half...
Night on Bald Mountain
...tone poem St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain (1867) was not performed until the 20th century. Gerald Abraham makes the claim that this version was performed by Nikolai Malko on 3...
Modest Mussorgsky
...ugly." However, after the premiere, views on Mussorgsky's music have drastically changed. Gerald Abraham, a musicologist, and an authority on Mussorgsky: "As a musical...
Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
...Bush in 1944 and the conductor Denis Vaughan in about 1960. More recently, the English musicologists Gerald Abraham and Brian Newbould have also offered completions of the whole symphony,...
Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)
...Fifth can structurally be analyzed in many different ways. Many Sibelian scholars - Cecil Gray (1935), Gerald Abraham (1947), Simon Parmet (1955), Robert Layton (1965), and Hepokoski (1993)...
Symphony No. 6 (Dvorak)
...it is possible to see the Sixth as a synthesis of many influences, or as the focus of just a few. Gerald Abraham writes, "…. (H)e had recognizable affinities with all three of the...
Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi
...and Ballet in Paris and London (London, 1933) Masters of Russian Music (London, 1936), with Gerald Abraham. Mussorgsky (London, 1946), a new extensive biography of Mussorgsky...
