1st Edition

Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music The Forging of an American Composer

486 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

486 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

486 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism. The book expands current knowledge of MacDowell’s childhood in four of the chapters based on his previously uninvestigated sheet music collection, thereby achieving a better... Read more

1 The Sheet Music Collection of Walter and Eddie McDowell: Provenance, Contents, Cosmopolitanism

2 The Collection and Eddie’s Teachers: Buitrago, Desvernine, Carreño

3 The Sheet Music Collection’s Compositional Impact

4 "Untold Gold": Taking the Juvenilia Seriously

5 Leaving Paris, Finding a Vocation in Germany

6 "Modernity" in MacDowell’s First Three Published Piano Works

7 The Transatlantic First Piano Concerto

8 Character Pieces: Forgotten Narratives

9 Wiesbaden Character Pieces: Literary and Theatrical Embodiments

10 The Shakespearean Second Piano Concerto

Epilogue

Appendix: The Sheet Music Collection’s Contents Organized by Media and Genres