Description
Book Synopsis
This first scholarly book on Cecile Chaminade, a popular composer, pianist, and one of the few women to attain critical acclaim as a composer in the early twentieth century, contains an extensive biography drawn from a significant collection of primary sources. The study presents basic information, including facts not previously published, on this neglected composer and it offers a discussion of historical and aesthetic issues inherent in her life and career as well as observations about her musical style. The exhaustive bibliography, an annotated listing of her prolific output, contains a selection of reviews of her compositions and first performances, and a brief section identifying her prose works. The up-to-date discography lists every commercially made recording of her individual works, anthologies, and performances, and it includes out-of-print releases.
This informative book offers the first detailed presentation of information on the location of Chaminade m
Table of Contents
Works and Performances Discography Bibliography Appendix I: Alphabetical List of Works Appendix II: Classified List of Works Appendix III: Summary of Archival Resources
