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Othmar Schoeck : life and works /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walton, Chris, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 65.
Subjects:
Schoeck, Othmar, > 1886-1957.
Composers > Switzerland > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Schoeck and the Swiss
  • Childhood and youth
  • Wolf amidst the sheep
  • Leipzig, Munich, and an awful little moustache
  • Back in the fold
  • Hermann Hesse, via the dentist
  • Look back in melancholy
  • Chamber music
  • The art of counterpoint
  • Busoni
  • The picture on the wall
  • Touch of Venus
  • Silent bronze
  • Sucking sweet folly
  • Self portrait, with sandwich
  • Elegy
  • Goodbye to Geneva
  • The bee in the rose
  • Raging queen
  • Storms in the pigeon loft
  • Into the vortex
  • Wrong-note rag
  • Hildebill
  • Variations and fugue on an age-old theme
  • Put to the wheel
  • Gisela
  • Lost in the stars
  • Whores and madonnas
  • "-- he can write music all right-- "
  • Tea with (Ms.) Hitler
  • Aryanizing music
  • Arms and the man
  • Castles in the air
  • Goering's bullshit
  • Collapse
  • The people at home
  • The reckoning
  • Transfigured summer nights
  • Silent lights
  • Fair measure
  • Rather nice horn
  • Sleepless in Wollishofen
  • Echoes and elegies
  • Running on empty
  • Epilogue.