Book contents
- Frontispiece
- Ernest Bloch Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Chronology
- Alphabetical List of Bloch’s Published and Unpublished Works
- Bloch Resources: Recordings in the Age of the Internet
- Introduction
- 1 From Geneva to New York: Radical Changes in Ernest Bloch’s View of Himself as a ‘Jewish Composer’ during his Twenties and Thirties
- 2 The ‘Suffering and Greatness’ of Ernest Bloch: Concepts of the Composer as Genius
- 3 Bloch, Wagner and Creativity: Refutation and Vindication
- 4 Sacred Service: the Mass Bloch Never Wrote, the Two That Leonard Bernstein Did Write, and Shulamit Ran’s Credo/Ani Ma’amin
- 5 Oregon Years: the Man and His Music
- 6 ‘The Future Alone Will Be the Judge’: Ernest Bloch’s Epic Journeys between Utopia and Dystopia
- 7 The Reception of Bloch’s Music in Palestine/Israel to 1948
- 8 Bloch’s Reception and His Standing in Israel since 1954
- 9 A Performance History of Bloch’s Opera Macbeth: Paris 1910–Manhattan 2014
- 10 King Solomon and the Baal Shem Tov: Traditional Elements in Bloch’s Musical Representation of Two Iconic Personalities from Jewish History
- 11 Postscript: the Legacy
- Select Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
3 - Bloch, Wagner and Creativity: Refutation and Vindication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2017
Book contents
- Frontispiece
- Ernest Bloch Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Chronology
- Alphabetical List of Bloch’s Published and Unpublished Works
- Bloch Resources: Recordings in the Age of the Internet
- Introduction
- 1 From Geneva to New York: Radical Changes in Ernest Bloch’s View of Himself as a ‘Jewish Composer’ during his Twenties and Thirties
- 2 The ‘Suffering and Greatness’ of Ernest Bloch: Concepts of the Composer as Genius
- 3 Bloch, Wagner and Creativity: Refutation and Vindication
- 4 Sacred Service: the Mass Bloch Never Wrote, the Two That Leonard Bernstein Did Write, and Shulamit Ran’s Credo/Ani Ma’amin
- 5 Oregon Years: the Man and His Music
- 6 ‘The Future Alone Will Be the Judge’: Ernest Bloch’s Epic Journeys between Utopia and Dystopia
- 7 The Reception of Bloch’s Music in Palestine/Israel to 1948
- 8 Bloch’s Reception and His Standing in Israel since 1954
- 9 A Performance History of Bloch’s Opera Macbeth: Paris 1910–Manhattan 2014
- 10 King Solomon and the Baal Shem Tov: Traditional Elements in Bloch’s Musical Representation of Two Iconic Personalities from Jewish History
- 11 Postscript: the Legacy
- Select Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Ernest Bloch Studies , pp. 37 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017