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Music performance and music history are closely intertwined. The best performers, including those interviewed for this book, infuse their art with an informed awareness of issues beyond the notes on the page. In this introductory essays, pianist Emanuel Ax and polymath Lawrence Kramer discuss the relationships between performance, interpretation, and history. The book’s primary interviewer, John Tibbetts, discusses the contexts for many of the interviews and his experiences concerning decades of talking about music with a plethora of performers and other musical artists.
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We refer to our cover illustration, J. J. Grandville’s cartoon, Concert a mittaille (1846).
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This loosely translates Berlioz’s original title, Les Grotesques de la musique. The appearance of Berlioz’s company of musicians roughly parallels other contemporaneous associations of artists, fictive and real, who speak out about their musical lives in Carl Maria von Weber’s Harmonische Verein, E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Serapion Brotherhood, and Robert Schumann’s Davidsbund.
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Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra, ed. and trans Jacques Barzun (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), 45.
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G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925), xii.
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William Hazlitt’s, “On the Conversation of Authors” was first published in the London Magazine, September 1820.
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Tibbetts, J.C., Saffle, M., Everett, W.A. (2018). Introduction. In: Tibbetts, J., Saffle, M., Everett, W. (eds) Performing Music History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92471-7_1
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