SKU: HL.49000521
Leben - Werke -
Dokumente. Composed
by Johann Peter Vogel.
This edition:
Hardback/Hard Cover.
Book. Edition Schott.
Classical. 357 pages.
Schott Music #ATL6239.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49000521).
ISBN
9783254002396. UPC:
884088599966.
5.5x8.75x1.29 inches.
German.
The image
of Hans Pfitzer, unlike
that of his fellow
composers Mahler, Strauss
or Schoenberg, still is
under a veneer of
myth-making: Benevolent
biographers stylized him
as a national fighter,
the last romantic or the
other-worldly loner while
critics generalized
individual negative
traits and regarded him
as a querulous person and
misanthropist, a
reactionary and
conservative. In fact,
his thinking and
music-making were rooted
in the 19th century, and
it is only today that the
independence and
originality of his works
seem to be noticed much
clearer from an evolved
historical perspective.
Based on the meticulous
studies of all sources,
the author draws an
understanding as well as
critical and
differentiated picture of
Pfitzner and, looking
beyond the main work
'Palestrina', turns the
reader's gaze to a
multi-faceted oeuvre.
