TY - BOOK AU - Runciman,John F. TI - Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians AV - ML PY - 2005/// PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Music KW - Opera KW - Musicians N1 - William Byrde ... his mass -- Our last great musician (Henry Purcell, 1658-95) -- Bach; the "Matthew" passion and the "John" -- Handel -- Haydn and his "Creation" -- Mozart, his "Don Giovanni" and the Requiem -- "Fidelio" -- Schubert -- Weber and Wagner -- Italian opera, dead and dying -- Verdi young and Verdi younger -- "The flying Dutchman" -- "Lohengrin" -- "Tristan and Isolda" -- "Siegfried" -- "The dusk of the gods" -- "Parsifal" -- Bayreuth in 1897 -- A note on Brahms -- Anton Dvorák -- Tschaikowsky and his "Pathetic" symphony -- Lamoureux and his orchestra; Public domain in the USA; Electronic text UR - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15369 ER -