TY  - BOOK
AU  - Radice,Mark A.
TI  - Chamber music: an essential history 
SN  - 9780472071654 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - ML1100 .R34 2012
U1  - 785.009 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Chamber music
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The nature of early chamber music -- The crystallization of genres during the golden age of chamber music -- Classical chamber music with wind instruments -- The chamber music of Beethoven -- The emergence of the wind quintet -- Schubert and musical aesthetics of the early Romantic era -- Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr -- Champions of tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann,and Brahms -- Nationalism in French chamber music of the late Romantic era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Ravel -- National schools from the time of Smetana to the mid-twentieth century -- Nationalism and tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German avant-garde -- The continuation of tonality in the twentieth century -- Strictly confidential: the chamber music of Dmitri Shostakovich -- Two fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: György Ligeti and Karel Husa -- Benchmarks: chamber music masterpieces since circa 1920
ER  -