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Paperback / softback. New. Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world's greatest composers. Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901), Richard Strauss (1864 1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908 92), and Benjamin Britten (1913 76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi's Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard Wagner's influence by introducing young Italian composers to a new model of national music. Strauss, on the other hand, struggling with personal and political problems in Nazi Germany, composed the self-reflexive Capriccio, a "life review" of opera and his own legacy. Though it exhausted him physically and emotionally, Messiaen at the age of seventy-five finished his only…
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Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten Paperback - 2016
by Linda Hutcheon; Michael Hutcheon
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- Title Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
- Author Linda Hutcheon; Michael Hutcheon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2016-11-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226420684 / 022642068X
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.37 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.94 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.92
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