Author: Schuller, Gunther
Paperback; Music
584 pages
Published: April 1999
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195126610
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In world renowned conductor and composer Gunther Schuller's highly provocative critique of modern conducting, he castigates many of this century's most venerates conductors for using the podium to indulge their own interpretive idiosyncrasies, rather than devote themselves to reproducing the composer's stated intentions. 937 music examples. 35 tables.The author, increasingly dismayed about the way contemporary orchestra leaders have ignored composer's intentions, puts forth his own principles of conducting, and then analyzes in detail several classical masterpieces comparing the composers' original notation to the conductors' interpretations.