Huneker, James 1857-1921

Chopin : the man and his music by James Huneker( )

104 editions published between 1900 and 2020 in 4 languages and held by 3,714 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chopin: The Man and His Music reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin's music that Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the great Polish composer whose music he adored

Melomaniacs by James Huneker( Book )

65 editions published between 1902 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 985 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At the close of the first day they brought Baruch into the great Hall of the Oblates, sometime called the Hall of the Unexpected. The young man walked with eyes downcast. Aloft in the vast spaces the swinging domes of light made more reddish his curly beard, deepened the hollows on either side of his sweetly pointed nose, and accented the determined corners of his firmly modelled lips. He was dressed in a simple tunic and wore no Talith; and as he slowly moved up the wide aisle the Grand Inquisitor, visibly annoyed by the resemblance, said to his famulus, The heretic dares to imitate the Master. He crossed himself and shuddered. At the close of the first day they brought Baruch into the great Hall of the Oblates, sometime called the Hall of the Unexpected. The young man walked with eyes downcast. Aloft in the vast spaces the swinging domes of light made more reddish his curly beard, deepened the hollows on either side of his sweetly pointed nose, and accented the determined corners of his firmly modelled lips. He was dressed in a simple tunic and wore no Talith; and as he slowly moved up the wide aisle the Grand Inquisitor, visibly annoyed by the resemblance, said to his famulus, The heretic dares to imitate the Master. He crossed himself and shuddered

Promenades of an impressionist by James Huneker( Book )

44 editions published between 1910 and 2020 in English and held by 951 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

There are many canvases the subjects of which are more pathologic than artistic, subjects only fit for the confessional or the privacy of the clinic. But, apart from these disagreeable episodes, the main note of the Salon is a riotous energy, the noisy ebullition of a gang of students let loose in the halls of art

Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology by Bernard Shaw( Book )

47 editions published between 1906 and 1928 in English and Undetermined and held by 867 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Painted veils by James Huneker( Book )

51 editions published between 1920 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 851 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The hero is a worldly young drama critic who falls in love with a soprano who refuses to let any emotion halt her career. He courts a Good Girl who fantasizes 'dream-children' and exercises his lust on a perky trollop. Others in the Huneker salon are a gossipy music critic and a seminarian who flies too close to the sun

Mezzotints in modern music; Brahms, Tschaïkowsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Liszt and Wagner; by James Huneker by James Huneker( Book )

73 editions published between 1899 and 2020 in English and German and held by 809 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume contains short biographies and musical histories for several 19th-century composers, including Tchaikovsky

Visionaries by James Huneker( Book )

47 editions published between 1905 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 728 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ivory, apes and peacocks; Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoïevsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cézanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian futurists, various latter-day poets, painters, composers and dramatists by James Huneker( Book )

27 editions published between 1915 and 1988 in English and Undetermined and held by 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoïevsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cézanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian futurists, various latter-day poets, painters, composers and dramatists

Franz Liszt by James Huneker( Book )

37 editions published between 1911 and 2020 in 4 languages and held by 666 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iconoclasts; a book of dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and d'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw by James Huneker( Book )

37 editions published between 1905 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide