Overture
Beginners On the page... ...and onto the stage
Act One:The Young Libertine
Act Two: Who was Harry Kessler?
Act Three in two scenes and an Epilogue: Creating Der
Rosenkavalier
Scene One - devising the scenario
Scene Two - characterisation and authorship
Epilogue
Creating Der Rosenkavalier - a retrospective
Bibliography
Major General Michael Reynolds CB joined the British Army in 1948, and was commissioned into the Queens Royal Regiment in 1950. In the course of a long and distinguished career, he served in Korea, where he was severely wounded, Northern Ireland and West Germany. On promotion to Major General he assumed command of NATO's Allied Command Europe Mobile Force (Land). In retirement, he became guest speaker on British Army and NATO battlefield tours in the Ardennes, publishing a number of detailed histories on World War 2 operations in Europe. He died in 2015.
Reynolds's book will reward both scholars and opera-lovers who are
interested in Der Rosenkavalier's co-creators or are fascinated by
collaboration and the creative process.
*MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES*
The 'Preface' to Michael Reynolds's charming book begins with a
pithy statement: 'This is a book about creation, authorship and
relationships'. Thus, in a nutshell, he lays out succinctly the
course his monograph takes from uncovering a largely overlooked
backstory to the creation of one of the most successful operas of
the twentieth century. He presents a detailed account of the nature
and origins of its authorship via a considered and sensitively
pitched examination of the artistic relationships that underpinned
it.
*MUSIC AND LETTERS*
If you love Der Rosenkavalier, Reynolds' book is essential-and
fascinating-reading. Exoticandirrational Blog
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This newly released paperback edition of Michael Reynolds' 2016
beautiful hardcover book will contain much that is news to fans -
and who isn't? - of Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.
*Limelight*
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