Frederick Delius: Music, Art and Literature

by Lionel Carley (Editor)

Overview

First published in 1998, Carley collates twelve essays by an international group of contributors reflects the truly cosmopolitan nature of Delius’s life and his music. They reveal the manner in which he absorbed the culture of the nations he came to know, their music, art and literature, and the influences they brought to bare on his own work. Also discussed are some of the often mixed, but rarely equivocal reactions that performances of his music have reactions over the years, with Lionel Carley’s in-depth study of the first production of Foleraadet in 1897, and a wide ranging analysis by Don Gillespie and Robert Beckhard of the critical reception of Delius’s music in the United States between 1909 and 1920.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138316485
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/09/2018
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Delius As Conductor , Stephen Lloyd. 2. Delius in Florida : The Delius Festival of Jacksonville, Mark A Stoneman. 3. On Hearing the First Delius in America: Critical Reaction to Frederick Delius’s Music in the United Staes 1909 – 1920, Don Gillepie, Robert Beckhard. 4. Christian Sinding-Frederick Delius : A Friendly Counterpoint, Gunnar Rugstad. 5. Florent Schmtt, David Eccott. 6. Frederick Delisu and Grez-sur-Loing : Some Japanese Perspectives, Toru Arayashiki. 7. ‘Our Prophetic Little Lady Friend’ : The Artist Ida Gerhardi, Annegret Rittmann. 8. From Ignaz Moscheles to Jelka Delius : A Background to the Rosen Family, Agnes Weiske. 9. Folkeraadet : Performance and History, Linonel Carley. 10. The Beginning of a Renaissance? The Operas of Frederick Delius in Germany at the End f the Twentieth Century, Andreas K W Meyer. 11. Eventyr and the Fairy Tales in Delius, Barrie Iliffe. 12. Delius and Danish Literature, John Bergsagel

Editorial Reviews

Carley, honorary archivist and adviser to the Delius Trust, has written previously about the peripatetic English-born composer (1862-1934) and his circle. Here Carley authors one of a dozen essays by international contributors reflecting the cosmopolitan nature of Delius's life and music, discussing the mixed critical review of the debut production of (1897). Others also explore his critical reception, and his relationships with other artists in America, Germany, Norway, and Grez-sur-Loing, France. Most of the 55 b&w illustrations are from the Trust's collections. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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