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Ernest Bloch Studies
About This Book
Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and Swiss - and his works reflect his lifelong struggle with his identity. Drawing on firsthand recollections of relatives and others who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch's life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch's works and compositional practice, including studies of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), violin pieces such as Nigun, the symphonic Schelomo, and the opera Macbeth. Setting the quality and significance of Bloch's output in its historical and cultural contexts, this book provides scholarly analyses as well as a full chronology, list of online resources, catalogue of published and unpublished works, and selected further reading.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword: Reminiscences of My Grandfather
- Chronology
- Alphabetical List of BlochâsPublished and Unpublished Works
- Bloch Resources: Recordings in the Age of the Internet
- Introduction
- 1 From Geneva to New York: Radical Changes in Ernest Blochâs View of Himself as a âJewish Composerâ during his Twenties and Thirties
- 2 The âSuffering and Greatnessâ of Ernest Bloch: Concepts of the Composer as Genius
- 3 Bloch, Wagner and Creativity: Refutation and Vindication
- 4 Sacred Service: the Mass Bloch Never Wrote, the Two That Leonard Bernstein Did Write, and Shulamit Ranâs Credo/Ani Maâamin
- 5 Oregon Years: the Man and His Music
- 6 âThe Future Alone Will Be the Judgeâ: Ernest Blochâs Epic Journeys between Utopia and Dystopia
- 7 The Reception of Blochâs Music in Palestine/Israel to 1948
- 8 Blochâs Reception and His Standing in Israel since 1954
- 9 A Performance History of Blochâs Opera Macbeth: Paris 1910-Manhattan 2014
- 10 King Solomon and the Baal Shem Tov: Traditional Elements in Blochâs Musical Representation of Two Iconic Personalities from Jewish History
- 11 Postscript: the Legacy
- Select Bibliography
- Index