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Аудіокнига Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master

Herbert Francis Peyser - Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master

Biography & Autobiography, Music,

13-03-2020

Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked every step of his progress.... Haydn was a master by the grace of Heaven and a servant only by the artificial conventions of a temporary soc...

Herbert Francis Peyser

02:01:41

Аудіокнига Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

Herbert Francis Peyser - Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

*Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography,

22-12-2019

How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of those achievements and unremitting conflicts which entered into the texture of this master’s agitated and inharmonious life! Actually, it a...

Herbert Francis Peyser

01:26:25

Herbert Francis Peyser - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music,

25-12-2019

Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself confronted with an impossible task. He has, consequently, preferred to outline as best he could in the space at his disposal a few successive ...

Herbert Francis Peyser

02:03:47

Herbert Francis Peyser - Schubert And His Works

*Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Music,

12-03-2020

This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schubert’s capacity for creative labor staggers the imagination… Volumes wou...

Herbert Francis Peyser

1:30:56

Аудіокнига Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

Herbert Francis Peyser - Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

Biography & Autobiography, Music,

06-01-2020

In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as Bach, Mozart or Schubert, even if he did not reach the altitude o...

Herbert Francis Peyser

01:29:25

Аудіокнига Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

Herbert Francis Peyser - Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

Biography & Autobiography, Music,

09-12-2019

[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard, moreover, to think of a composer more strategically placed in his epoch...

Herbert Francis Peyser

01:31:52

Herbert Francis Peyser - Richard Strauss

Biography & Autobiography, Music,

03-12-2019

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters... If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein Heldenleben” and “Till Eulenspiegel” were in their day scan...

Herbert Francis Peyser

01:31:47

Herbert Francis Peyser - Johann Sebastian Bach

Biography & Autobiography,

29-11-2019

Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day existence seems almost pedestrian.... The present volume, which advances no claim whatever to any new or original slant, aims to do no more...

Herbert Francis Peyser

01:19:32

Herbert Francis Peyser - George Frideric Handel

Biography & Autobiography, Music,

14-01-2020

Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force even a small part of it into the f...

Herbert Francis Peyser

01:49:00

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