Many Masks of Karol Szymanowski - Bok av Cesetti Durval - Häftad
This book provides a biographical sketch of Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) and explores the relationship between his two piano triptychs - Métopes, op. 29, and Masques, op. 34 - and the literary characters evoked by each of their movements: the Sirens, Calypso and Nausicaa (from Homer¿s \Odyssey\), Sheherazade (from \The Arabian Nights\), Tristan (from Ernst Hardt¿s play \Tantris der Narr\), and Don Juan (not associated to a specific source), discussing the multiple strategies used by the..