California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Ernst von DohnĂĄnyi's American Years, 1949-1960
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California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Ernst von DohnĂĄnyi's American Years, 1949-1960
About This Book
On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von DohnĂĄnyi (1877?1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in DohnĂĄnyi's exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of Ă©migrĂ© life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of DohnĂĄnyi's late worksâin most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician's life in the United States and skillfully illustrates DohnĂĄnyi's impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.
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Table of contents
- Imprint
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. From the âRampartsâ of Hungarian Music to Emigration: DohnĂĄnyiâs Career
- 2. Life as an ĂmigrĂ©: The American Period
- 3. Representative Works: Stabat Mater and American Rhapsody
- 4. Independent Compositions: Works for Piano and Flute
- 5. Two Concertos, Two Stories
- Epilogue: Spontaneity, Flexibility, Adaptation
- Appendix 1. Timeline of DohnĂĄnyiâs Life in the United States
- Appendix 2. Main Specifications of DohnĂĄnyiâs American Works
- Appendix 3. DohnĂĄnyiâs Concerts in the United States
- Appendix 4. DohnĂĄnyiâs Concert Repertoire in the United States
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index