The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions. Beginning with some of the earliest silent film examples--including some of the first feature-length "bio-pics" ever produced--these essays range from the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century's Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.

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The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions. Beginning with some of the earliest silent film examples--including some of the first feature-length "bio-pics" ever produced--these essays range from the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century's Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.

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The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

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This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions. Beginning with some of the earliest silent film examples--including some of the first feature-length "bio-pics" ever produced--these essays range from the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century's Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786499656
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 05/15/2018
Pages: 233
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, London South Bank and East London.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword: What Composers on Screen Can Do for Us (Russell Jackson)
Introduction (Paul Fryer)
Composers on Screen and on Stage: A Comparison (Daniel ­Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
Orpheus in the Movie World: Offenbach on Film (Laurence Senelick)
Dance of the Seven Veils (Pierre Bellemare)
Verdi: A Life in Three Movies (Paul Fryer)
Sisters of Faith and Genius: Hildegard von Bingen and Nannerl Mozart
(Carmen Gorgichuk)
Le Roi danse (The King Dances) (Pierre Bellemare)
Hagiography or Realism? Wagner ­Bio-Pics (F. Jane Schopf)
Staging Gender and Genius in James Lapine’s Impromptu (Lindsay Brandon Hunter)
Picturing the Cradle: Blitzstein as Memory, Blitzstein as Comedy (John Patrick Bray)
Cole Porter’s Fabulous Film Lives: Night and Day and De-Lovely (Ellen M. Peck)
La Symphonie fantastique (Pierre Bellemare)
Robert Schumann: A Double Vision (John C. Tibbetts)
All That Jazz: George Gershwin, American Mythology and Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (Samuel J. Umland)
Elgar and Delius (Nesta Jones)
Picturing the Composer (Gary Yershon)
About the Contributors
Index
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