Questions About The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

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Would love to find a book like 'the judgement of paris', but for classical music movements, eg. romanticism. Any one know of such a book?

Wade Dizdar Maybe because the art-market is filled with investors. But in music, time and again the scandal of Impressionism, described here, resembles reactions …moreMaybe because the art-market is filled with investors. But in music, time and again the scandal of Impressionism, described here, resembles reactions to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Paris ballet premiere, most famously and also others where actual fistfights occur in the hall. That's a place to begin (your favorite scandalous compositions) though the market and the academic discussions would not maybe not allow Ross King's intense interest here.
Or, like the comparison of Delacroix's victorious Liberty and Meissonier's more personal Remembrance, seek out a personal view of non-official programme Soviet works of Shostakovich or of Prokofiev. Meanwhile, Composer's letters, like Alban Berg's Letters To His Wife, illustrate some issues and persons.(less)

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