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Alphons Diepenbrock: The Life, Times and Music of a Dutch Romantic Composer

Alphons Diepenbrock: The Life, Times and Music of a Dutch Romantic Composer

Samama, Leo

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ISBN10: 0907689612
ISBN13: 9780907689614
Publisher: Toccata Pr
Published: Mar 27 2023
Pages: 433
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The music of the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) is one of the glories of European late-Romantic culture, although is hardly known outside his native Netherlands. This translation makes Leo Samama's masterly study of Diepenbrock available to non-Dutch readers for the first time.

The music of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) is one of the glories of European late-Romantic culture. But it is hardly known outside his native Netherlands - a situation this book hopes to change. Diepenbrock's life and his music are deeply intertwined: self-taught as a composer, he was a classics tutor by profession, a Catholic with a fondness for religious mysticism and one of the leading Dutch intellectuals of his day, with Mahler, Schoenberg and Richard Strauss among his circle of friends. In his 'Overture' to this book Robin Holloway describes Diepenbrock's music - most of which involves the voice - as a 'wondrous fusion of Palestrina and Wagner (with Debussy thrown in, and a dash of Mahler)' and praises its 'visionary serenity'. It is that balance between classical clarity and Romantic passion that gives Diepenbrock's compositions their unique character - and their emotional power.

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