The evolution of Ernest Bloch's music is traced throughout his travels in Europe and America. A complete picture of Bloch emerges from this integrated study of his life and his music. The opening biographical chapter provides a brief, personal history from which Bloch's career and many interests follow, including his pursuits in photography. The biographical information provides the framework for addressing the Jewish Question, a common focus of Bloch's work. Bloch emerges, from this multifaceted study, as a composer whose music must be examined within both its Jewish heritage and in a larger, universal context.

This book appraises the contribution of Paul Dukas (1865-1935) to a wide variety of French musical practices. As a composer, critic, artistic collaborator and teacher, Dukas was central to the fin de siecle and early twentieth-century Paris musical scene (and more broadly to the French scene). Significantly, his compositional style mediated tradition through the modern language of his present, while his critical writings pioneered a new mode of musical discourse in the French press. Of further interest are Dukas's professional relationships with iconic figures such as Gabriel Faure and Claude Debussy, and his role in fostering the next generation of French composers. In addition to mentoring famous names such as Olivier Messiaen and Tony Aubin, he staunchly supported his female students, notably Elsa Barraine, Claude Arrieu and Yvonne Desportes. This unique essay collection offers a panoramic perspective on a comparatively neglected French musician. Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician traces two aspects of his work: Part I treats Dukas as a composer, thinker and artistic collaborator; Part II constructs his intellectual legacy as seen in his creative and pedagogic endeavours.

A piano child prodigy, Vivian Fine (1913-2000) composed her first piece in 1926 at thirteen while studying harmony with Ruth Crawford. At age 16, her music was performed in Chicago, New York, and Germany. Unlike many prodigies, Fine's early brilliance persisted, and over the course of a 70-year career she became one of America's most highly regarded composers. Fine was a member of Aaron Copland's Young Composers Group and a participant at the first Yaddo Festival in 1932. Henry Cowell was an early supporter who published her scores in New Music. Although perhaps best known for her chamber music, Fine wrote in virtually every genre, including large-scale symphonic and choral works. Her earliest work is highly dissonant, followed by more tonal compositions during her nine years of study with Roger Sessions. After 1946 she returned to a freer mode of expression, which Wallingford Riegger described as "tempered atonality." Despite early recognition of her genius, Fine experienced obstacles as a female composer and often felt alone and isolated from the world of prominent musicians. Finally, at age fifty-six, she was appointed to the faculty at Bennington College. Her years there, surrounded by a faculty eager to perform her work, were some of the happiest and most productive of her life. In 1980 she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1983 her Drama for Orchestra was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. Renowned musicologist Heidi Von Gunden's concise, lively biography of Fine's life includes an insightful analysis of dozens of musical compositions. Useful resources include a chronology, complete catalog of works, discography, and bibliography.

Herbert Fromm (1905-1995) was a German-born Jewish American composer, organist, and conductor.

English-language biography of Jewish American composer Roy Harris (1898-1979). Harris is best known as a symphonist who focused on American themes.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. Korngold struggled to reconcile the musical language of his Viennese upbringing with American popular song and cinema, and was forced to adapt to a new life after wartime emigration to Hollywood. This collection examines Korngold's operas and film scores, the critical reception of his music, and his place in the milieus of both the Old and New Worlds. The volume also features numerous historical documents--many previously unpublished and in first-ever English translations--including essays by the composer as well as memoirs by his wife, Luzi Korngold, and his father, the renowned music critic Julius Korngold.

A collection of essays that investigates the life and the work of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), the most famous exponent of French grand opera. The essays in this book are both introductory, biographical, and are comparative studies in the achievement of this great figure of musical history.

Printed transcription of a lecture delivered at the Conservatorium of music, Sydney, Australia about Jewish British composer Isaac Nathan (1790-1864).

A German-language biography of German Jewish German composer Jacques (born Jakob) Offenbach (1819-1880), including a works list.

Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a biography fraught with difficult and often exciting questions of socio-cultural order. How Rossi solved, or appears to have solved, the problem of conflicting interests is a subject worthy of inquiry, not only because we want to know more about Rossi, but also because Rossi can stand as a paradigm for other Jewish figures who, contemporary with him, moved between different cultures.

George Rochberg, American Composer, is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and putting into a rich cultural context the career of George Rochberg, widely acknowledged as one of the most prominent musical postmodernists. Drawing from unpublished materials including diaries, letters, sketches, and personal papers, the book traces the impact of two specific personal traumas--Rochberg's service as an infantryman in World War II and the premature death of his son--on his work as a leading composer, college educator, and public intellectual.

Short biography with works list of Jewish Russian-American composer and conductor Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959) from the Bloch Publishing Company series "Eminent composers of Hebrew music."

Despite his conversion to Protestantism in 1898, Schoenberg contemplated Jewish and biblical themes all his life. In this sympathetic and perceptive study, Ringer illuminates this religious aspect of the great composer's work, and shows how Schoenberg was both a religious artist and the product of an emancipated Central European Jewry. Schoenberg converted back to Judaism in 1933.

This is the first monograph about Ruth Schonthal, the internationally-renowned composer whose works are performed worldwide. Parts of the work are based on conversations that the author conducted with Ms. Schonthal over the past 20 years. The book is also the first contribution to exile research concerned with artists that fled Nazi Germany in their childhood. Ruth Schonthal's unique and dramatic biography encompasses three continents and now spans eight decades.

German-language collection of 274 letters of composer and pianist Edward Steuermann (1892-1964) with commentary and essays.

German-language autobiography of German-born Jewish Israeli composer Josef Tal (1910-2008). Includes a discography and works list.

A varied and fascinating collection of essays from international scholars and musicians on Alexander von Zemlinsky, the important early 20th-century Austrian composer and conductor. Topics of discussion include his relation to his contemporaries and to his place in the Austro-German musical tradition, the difficulties found in editing his works, and the subtle balance between 19th-century influences and expressionism found in his early Fantasies.

German-language biography of German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer (1885-1973). Klemperer was a conducting protégé of Gustav Mahler and composition student of Arnold Schoenberg. Klemperer escaped Nazi Germany in 1933.