The Music of Frederick Delius – Style, Form and Ethos

PART 1 THE SEEDS OF COSMOPOLITANISM 1 An unconventional apprenticeship: Bradford, Florida and Leipzig (1862-1888) 2 Creative self-communion: Paa Vidderne, Lieder aus dem Norwegischen, Légendes, Drei Symphonische Dichtungen, Songs (1888-1891) 3 A Wagnerian odyssey: Irmelin and The Magic Fountain (1891-1895) 4 A stylistic fulcrum: Koanga, the Danish Songs, the Piano Concerto and Folkeraadet (1895-1897) 5 A Nietzschean 'dance' epiphany: Nieztsche Songs, Mitternachtslied Zarathustras, Paris, La Ronde se déroule, Lebenstanz (1898-1901) PART 2 THE VOICE OF INDIVIDUALITY 6 Operatic innovation: Romeo und Juliet auf dem Dorfe and Margot le Rouge (1898-1902) 7 American apogee: Appalachia (1902) and Sea Drift (1902-3) 8 The Nietzschean obsession: A Mass of Life (1904-6) 9 'English' interlude: the partsong as innovative genre: Songs of Sunset, 'On Craig Ddu', 'Wanderer's Song', 'Midsummer Song', 'To be sung of a summer night on the river' (1906-8) 10 The symphonic poem (I): Brigg Fair, In a Summer Garden, Dance Rhapsody No. 1 (1907-1912) 11 Homage to Jacobsen: Fennimore and Gerda, An Arabesque (1908-1913) PART 3 FAME AND DECLINE 12 Symphonic poem (II): Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, Song of the High Hills, North Country Sketches (1911-1914) 13 Music of the war years and after (I): Dance Rhapsody No. 2, Requiem, Eventyr, A Song Before Sunrise, Poem of Life and Love, Hassan 14 Music of the war years and after (II): Sonatas and Concertos: A Stylistic Paradox: Violin Sonata No. 1, Double Concerto, Cello Sonata, String Quartet, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto, Violin Sonata No. 2 (1914-1923) 15 The last years of creativity: Song of Summer, A Late Lark, Cynara, Violin Sonata No. 3, Songs of Farewell, Irmelin Prelude, Fantastic Dance, Idyll (1923-1934) Epilogue Bibliography