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Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten free ebook download

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Author(s):	Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon

Date:	2015	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	022642068X
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Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audiences expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the worlds greatest composers.

Giuseppe Verdi (18131901), Richard Strauss (18641949), Olivier Messiaen (190892), and Benjamin Britten (191376) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdis Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard Wagners 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 opera, Saint Franois dAssise, which marked the pinnacle of his career. Britten, meanwhile, suffering from heart problems, refused surgery until he had completed his masterpiece, Death in Venice. For all four composers, age, far from sapping their creative power, provided impetus for some of their best accomplishments.

With its deft treatment of these composers final years and works, Four Last Songs provides a valuable look at the challengesand opportunitiesthat present themselves as artists grow older.

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