The second part of the third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown continues the geographical tour of the mid-19th-to early-20th-century symphony begun in Vol. 3A. Brown discusses works from England, Russia, and France—including those by Potter, Bennett, Stanford, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Gounod, Bizet, Franck, Dukas, and many others. A single source provides a detailed analysis of stylistic traits and background material on the composition and performances of these masterpieces. Brown's series synthesizes an enormous amount of scholarly literature in a wide range of languages. It presents current overviews of the status of research, discusses important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples early writings on their reception. There are overviews of the symphony as a genre and in-depth analysis of particular aspects of the symphony (such as composer, period, or instrument). No other book or series of books allows for the in-depth musical analysis and historical context that Brown provides in each volume of The Symphonic Repertoire.
A. Peter Brown (1943–2003) was Professor of Musicology and Department Chair at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He authored more than 80 published articles and reviews and was known for his scholarship on Joseph Haydn.
Table of Contents
VOLUME III PART B: GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, FRANCESection Four — The British SymphonyChapter Fourteen — The Symphony in Great Britain: From Potter to ElgarThe Symphonic Milieu from ca. 1800 to ca. 1850Cipriani PotterWilliam Sterndale BennettThe Symphonic Milieu from ca. 1850 to 1912Charles Villiers StanfordC. Hubert H. ParryEdward ElgarConclusion: The British SymphonyBibliographic OverviewSection Five — The Russian SymphonyChapter Fifteen — The Symphony in Russia: From Glinka to RachmaninoffThe Symphonic MilieuThe Seeds of the Russian Symphony: Mikhail GlinkaNikolay Rimsky-KorsakovAleksandr BorodinPyotr Il'yich TchaikovskyMily BalakirevVasily Sergeyevich KalinnikovSerge RachmaninoffConclusion: What Makes a Symphony Russian?Bibliographic OverviewSection Six — The French Symphony Chapter Sixteen — The French Symphony after Berlioz: From the Second Empire to the First World WarIntroduction: The Symphony in Mid-CenturyCharles GounodGeorges BizetCamille Saint-SaënsBetween Saint-Saëns's Second and Third: The "Revival" of Instrumental Music after 1870Camille Saint-Saëns (continued)French Symphonies after 1885: Classical and Romantic CampsÉdouard LaloCésar FranckErnest ChaussonPaul DukasVincent d'IndyBetween the Mountain Air and d'Indy's Second: The Symphony at the Turn of the CenturyVincent d'Indy (continued)Guy RopartzCharles TournemireThree Symphonists from the ConservatoireAlbéric MagnardConclusionBibliographic OverviewIndex
"A surprising aspect of the 20th century musical historiography is that some of the central repertoires of Western art music remain unexplored in broad-based treatments. . .Fortunately, within the 1980s and 1990s a sufficient number of the more obscure symphonies has been made available in editions and reprints so that a measured and reasonable overview can be constructed."
