Dvořák cello concerto

✍ Scribed by Jan Smaczny

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 130
• Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although Dvorák's cello concerto is enormously popular, no extended study of it has been undertaken hitherto. This book is a comprehensive study intended for concertgoers and students of this well-loved work. It considers aspects of historical background, form, virtuosity, performance and the concerto's rich personal content. This guide sees the work as a crucial means of exploring the composer's emotional life and links it intimately to the woman who was probably his first love.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Preface and acknowledgements (page ix)
1 Dvořák and the cello (page 1)
2 Preludes to the Concerto (page 11)
3 The Concerto and Dvořák's 'American manner' (page 20)
4 'Decisions and revisions': sketch and compositional process (page 29)
5 The score I: forms and melodies (page 42)
6 The score II: interpretations (page 64)
7 Performers and performances (page 86)
Notes (page 99)
Select bibliography (page 111)
Select discography (page 115)
Index (page 116)