Ernest Newman (1868–1959)
Author of Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers
About the Author
Image credit: Ernest Newman, c. 1905
Works by Ernest Newman
Great Operas: The Definitive Treatment of Their History, Stories, and Music, Vol. 1 (1958) 20 copies
Great Operas - The Definitive Treatment of Their History, Stories and Music (Vol. I) (1958) 3 copies
Gluck and the Opera: A Study in Musical History (Cambridge Library Collection - Music) (2009) 2 copies
Symphonies and ballets 2 copies
Great Operas Vol. 2 2 copies
The stories of the great operas with music / edited by Ernest Newman and Sir Landon Ronald [complete in 4 volumes] (1920) 1 copy
A musical critic's holiday 1 copy
Associated Works
Fifty Years: Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and Reportage and Essays: All Drawn from Volumes Issued during the Last Half-Century by… (1965) — Contributor — 56 copies
High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men — Contributor — 2 copies
Wagner : Parsifal [score : vocal] — Translator, some editions — 1 copy
Wagner : The Valkyrie {score : vocal} {Breitkopf, arr. Singer} — Translator, some editions — 1 copy
BBC Proms 2025 : Berlioz’s 'Symphonie fantastique' : Tuesday 22 July 2025 {programme} (2025) — Contributor [Strauss] — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Williams, Robert
- Other names
- Newman, Ernest
Cecil, Hugh Mortimer - Birthdate
- 1868-11-30
- Date of death
- 1959-07-07
- Gender
- male
- Education
- St Saviour's School, Everton
University College, Liverpool - Occupations
- teacher
musicologist
music critic - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Birmingham, England, UK
Manchester, England, UK - Place of death
- Tadworth, Surrey, UK
- Map Location
- England, UK
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Reviews
A very detailed study of the life of the German Composer. Very serious effort was made to place the man in the context of his time. There are bits the non-musician finds a little slow, but the effort is rewarded. there are more concise biographies of the man, but like Martin Gilbert's life of Winston S. Churchill (9 volumes) when one is done, you have a lifetime of factoids to drop on the unwary.
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