{"product_id":"9780571302819","title":"Slavonic and Romantic Music: Essays and Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eGerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first published in 1968), one of exceptional breadth and fascination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subjects range from the relationship of Slavonic music to the western world, to detailed essays on figures such as Chopin, Dvor k, Rubinstein and Mussorgsky. A study of realism in Janacek's operas contains a particularly fine analysis of \u003ci\u003eFrom a House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and there is an account of the fantastic 'erotic diary' for piano in which Zdenek Fibich, one of the finest nineteenth-century Czech symphonists, recorded the secrets of his love affair with former student and librettist Anezka Schulzov .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Gerald Abraham (1904-1988) was a distinguished musicologist, among his official posts those of Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and Assistant Controller of Music at the BBC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124380221680,"sku":"9780571302819","price":26.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571302819_p0.jpg?v=1763719056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571302819","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}