Four Last Songs

by Linda Hutcheon and Professor of Medicine Michael Hutcheon

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Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties at a time when their audience's expectations of their talents are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue through close looks at those who created some of the world's most important and influential operas. Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 92), and Benjamin Britten (1913 - 76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal radically individual responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi's Falstaff, his...Read more
  • ISBN10 022625562X
  • ISBN13 9780226255620
  • Publish Date 1 January 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 160
  • Language English