Art and literature inspired by music
Kinra Dragosani
artists and writers that were inspired by famous composers such as
Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, etc. And also the opposite: famous composers
that wrote music inspired by paintings and literature (such as Purcell
with Shakespeare, etc.) Please I need help, send your e-mails to
kinra_d...@hotmail.com.
Thank you so much!
Retro_T_Bop
Kinra Dragosani <kinra_d...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Many Romantic authors of the 19th century were somewhat "inspired" by
Beethoven, although I don't know to what extent. We often see references to
Beethoven in many works of prose and poetry written during this period.
Claude Debussy sought to emulate the impressionist paintings of Monet, etc.
in his music.....although the entire impressionist movement was a bit
bizarre......composers (by which I mean Debussy) sought to emulate art, art
sought to emulate poetry, and poetry sought to emulate music.
Many composers of the art song genre (or the German Lieder) found Goethe's
works particularly desirable to set music to. Check out the songs of
Beethoven, Schubert and Wolf, among others.
Charles Ives wrote his famous "Concorde, Mass. Piano Sonata" after 4 New
England authors - Emerson, Thoreau, the Alcotts family and Hawthorne.
mike
Jerry Kohl
Mary Bauermeister's paintings owe a great deal to the compositional
procedures of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who in turn acknowleges many
painters as strong influences on his music: Breughel, Grünewald,
Kandinsky, Klee, Pollock, Mathieu, Tinguely, Kline, de Kooning,
Motherwell, Rauschenberg, Johns, and, yes, Bauermeister.
Jerry
Robert Briggs
>
> I'm doing a schoolwork and I need some information about famous
> artists and writers that were inspired by famous composers such as
> Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, etc. And also the opposite: famous composers
> that wrote music inspired by paintings and literature (such as Purcell
The usual drill is that when you ask in a newsgroup you should expect
answers there, not by email.
Also, it's not really the done thing for us to do your homework for
you, although the odd hint can be in order.
Manchester's Halle Orchestra is doing a season called "Such Sweet
Thunder" in which many of the works are linked to Shakespeare in one
way or another.
Go to http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/collectiontickets.asp and
have a look around.
Steven Forrest
Retro_T_Bop <mic...@roadrunner.nf.net> wrote:
>Kinra Dragosani <kinra_d...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:99cf0b5b.03032...@posting.google.com...
>> I'm doing a schoolwork and I need some information about famous
>> artists and writers that were inspired by famous composers such as
>> Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, etc. And also the opposite: famous composers
>> that wrote music inspired by paintings and literature (such as Purcell
>> with Shakespeare, etc.) Please I need help, send your e-mails to
>> kinra_d...@hotmail.com.
>Claude Debussy sought to emulate the impressionist paintings of Monet, etc.
>in his music...
Actually, Debussy was much more involved with the symbolist poets.
His famous "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" refers to a poem
by Stéphane Mallarmé.
Debussy himself hated the label of "impressionist".
-Steve
Pan
Dragosani) wrote:
>I'm doing a schoolwork and I need some information about famous
>artists and writers that were inspired by famous composers such as
>Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, etc. And also the opposite: famous composers
>that wrote music inspired by paintings and literature
[snip]
I think that the latter is easier than the former. Remember that song
lyrics are a form of literature, and often are in fact poems written
as free-standing poems by more or less well-known authors. Look at who
set poems by Goethe, Schiller, Mallarme', et al. to music. Look at
people who composed incidental music, tone poems, and operas based on
Shakespeare plays like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello,
Falstaff, A Midsummer Night's Dream, etc. Then there are musical works
based on works by Byron like _Manfred_. Etc., etc., etc. As for music
based on paintings, how does the title _Pictures at an Exhibition_
strike you?
Now, as for the former, famous composers? Because the first thing I
thought of was Broadway Boogie Woogie by Mondriaen, and I don't think
any Boogie Woogie composers are currently famous, certainly not on the
order of a Beethoven. You may want to read some remarks artists and
writers themselves made in interviews and see who mentions being
influenced by particular composers, and in what way. You may also want
to post this kind of question to newsgroups about the visual arts,
poetry, and literature generally, and see if you can elicit pointers.
But don't expect everyone to email you. Many of us are not interested
in having long back-and-forth private email conversations, but would
rather read threads on these topics. Besides, if you read the
give-and-take, you may learn something.
Michael
Simon Smith
panNO...@musician.org (Pan) wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2003 03:42:18 -0800, kinra_d...@hotmail.com (Kinra
> Dragosani) wrote:
>
> >I'm doing a schoolwork and I need some information about famous
> >artists and writers that were inspired by famous composers such as
> >Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, etc. And also the opposite: famous composers
> >that wrote music inspired by paintings and literature
> [snip]
>
> I think that the latter is easier than the former. Remember that song
> lyrics are a form of literature, and often are in fact poems written
> as free-standing poems by more or less well-known authors. Look at who
> set poems by Goethe, Schiller, Mallarme', et al. to music. Look at
> people who composed incidental music, tone poems, and operas based on
> Shakespeare plays like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello,
> Falstaff, A Midsummer Night's Dream, etc. Then there are musical works
> based on works by Byron like _Manfred_. Etc., etc., etc. As for music
> based on paintings, how does the title _Pictures at an Exhibition_
> strike you?
Rachmaninov's "Isle of the Dead" (after Böcklin) is a fairly clear example.
As well as being a fantastic piece!
> Now, as for the former, famous composers? Because the first thing I
> thought of was Broadway Boogie Woogie by Mondriaen, and I don't think
> any Boogie Woogie composers are currently famous, certainly not on the
> order of a Beethoven.
Interestingly, Haflidi Hallgrimsson has written a piano piece inspired
by painting. (Part of a series of pieces after Mondrian.)
Simon
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Francois Desnoyers
Jerry Kohl wrote:
Usually, its the composers who are inspired by litterature. But I can now
remember of two examples where it is the other way around:
Anthony Burgess's Napoleon Symphony, is a novel based on Beethoven's third.
There is also, but to a lesser degree, Tolstoi's Kreutser sonata, again,
based on a Beethoven piece.
As for paintings, you have plenty of still life works representing musical
instruments. There are so many examples that I would suggest you pick one
artist and study his work from this point of view. Then, my suggestion is :
look at Picasso's work. He loves to represents guitars and musicians.
Francois