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A historia da musica
Carpeaux foi um dos intelectuais mais importantes do cenário nacional, especialmente como crítico literário e ensaísta. Erudito, com sólida formação humanística, tinha uma visão global da realidade do nosso tempo. Lançada há mais de 60 anos, esta é uma obra de referência sobre a música. Otto Maria Carpeaux apresenta aqui uma análise geográfica e cronológica da música, da Idade Média até os nossos dias. São sete séculos de música temperados com detalhes históricos e explanações teóricas preciosas. E sua forma de apresentar a música e os compositores tornam a leitura ainda mais interessante, já que faz análises sobre a vida e a época, além de analisar as composições também pelas partituras.
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Otto Maria Carpeaux
80 books59 followersOtto Maria Carpeaux (March 9, 1900 – February 3, 1978), born Otto Karpfen, was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.
Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939. In the University of Vienna he studied exact sciences and received his PhD in chemistry with a work concerning the brain, and possibly also a degree in physics. Later he studied sociology and philosophy in Paris, comparative literature in Naples, politics in Berlin and, supposedly, mathematics in Leipzig.
At some point in his life, Karpfen converted to Christianity, adding the Maria to his name and using Fidelis as his surname for some time. This conversion was evident in his political books (such as Wege Nach Rom) and his thinking, and led to his participation in the right-wing government of Engelbert Dollfuss.
When the Anschluss occurred and the Nazis took over Vienna, Karpfen went to Belgium. He stayed there for about a year and then went to Brazil, where he changed his last name to Carpeaux. At first, he was given a simple rural job, but eventually, through newspapers, he became an established literary critic, introducing writers such as Franz Kafka and Robert Musil to Brazilian audiences, along with the literary criticism of Wilhelm Dilthey, Benedetto Croce, Walter Benjamin and others.
Perhaps the peak of Carpeaux's production was his eight-volume História da Literatura Ocidental (History of Western Literature), unfortunately available only in Portuguese. Late critic José Lino Grünewald labelled it one of the brightest moments of the language in prose, despite the fact that Carpeaux was not a native speaker. It was written over a period of two years with a limited amount of research; the author depended primarily on his memory.[citation needed:] It is also unique in that it focuses on creating links between all periods, in order to create an organic vision of the literary history he is telling. The book also include more than 8,000 brief criticisms and expositions of the majority of the figures discussed along the way, minus the ones cited in passing; all are dealt with in their original languages, both in expositions and quotations and in the bibliography offered. The total bibliographical amount of cited works is on the merge of 30,000 books or more.
After a transition to the Brazilian left, marked by his fight against the military dictatorship that came to power in 1964, Carpeaux abandoned his literary writings by 1968, although he participated in an encyclopedia called Mirador. He died of a heart attack in 1978.
Recently, his essays have been compiled by Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, with an added introduction. Critic Mauro Souza Ventura released De Karpfen a Carpeaux, a study in the life and work of Carpeaux. Carpeaux's other works include a dense history of German literature, several books of literary criticism, a popular history of Western music and various political writings.
Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939. In the University of Vienna he studied exact sciences and received his PhD in chemistry with a work concerning the brain, and possibly also a degree in physics. Later he studied sociology and philosophy in Paris, comparative literature in Naples, politics in Berlin and, supposedly, mathematics in Leipzig.
At some point in his life, Karpfen converted to Christianity, adding the Maria to his name and using Fidelis as his surname for some time. This conversion was evident in his political books (such as Wege Nach Rom) and his thinking, and led to his participation in the right-wing government of Engelbert Dollfuss.
When the Anschluss occurred and the Nazis took over Vienna, Karpfen went to Belgium. He stayed there for about a year and then went to Brazil, where he changed his last name to Carpeaux. At first, he was given a simple rural job, but eventually, through newspapers, he became an established literary critic, introducing writers such as Franz Kafka and Robert Musil to Brazilian audiences, along with the literary criticism of Wilhelm Dilthey, Benedetto Croce, Walter Benjamin and others.
Perhaps the peak of Carpeaux's production was his eight-volume História da Literatura Ocidental (History of Western Literature), unfortunately available only in Portuguese. Late critic José Lino Grünewald labelled it one of the brightest moments of the language in prose, despite the fact that Carpeaux was not a native speaker. It was written over a period of two years with a limited amount of research; the author depended primarily on his memory.[citation needed:] It is also unique in that it focuses on creating links between all periods, in order to create an organic vision of the literary history he is telling. The book also include more than 8,000 brief criticisms and expositions of the majority of the figures discussed along the way, minus the ones cited in passing; all are dealt with in their original languages, both in expositions and quotations and in the bibliography offered. The total bibliographical amount of cited works is on the merge of 30,000 books or more.
After a transition to the Brazilian left, marked by his fight against the military dictatorship that came to power in 1964, Carpeaux abandoned his literary writings by 1968, although he participated in an encyclopedia called Mirador. He died of a heart attack in 1978.
Recently, his essays have been compiled by Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, with an added introduction. Critic Mauro Souza Ventura released De Karpfen a Carpeaux, a study in the life and work of Carpeaux. Carpeaux's other works include a dense history of German literature, several books of literary criticism, a popular history of Western music and various political writings.
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January 18, 2024
4.7/5
“A História da Música” é um guia musical extraordinário! Otto Maria Carpeux é um crítico de música fabuloso e de cultura invejável. A forma como conta a história da música e sua evolução ao longo do tempo, contextualizando-a com o momento social e cultural de seu período, é uma aula. Uma de suas principais qualidades é conseguir dar um adjetivo único para cada compositor mencionado ao longo do livro, apesar de citar mais de 100. De maneira muito habilidosa, Otto deixa claro os pontos fracos e fortes de cada músico e o quanto sua contribuição foi relevante para a construção da música ao longo do tempo. Só não dou 5/5 por um motivo: o livro não trata da “história da música”, mas sim da história da música ocidental. Vou além: da música erudita ocidental. Apesar de no prefácio o autor deixar claro que ele deliberadamente deixou de fora a história da música popular e oriental, entendo que o título do livro é mais amplo que seu conteúdo. No mais, é um livro impecável!
“A História da Música” é um guia musical extraordinário! Otto Maria Carpeux é um crítico de música fabuloso e de cultura invejável. A forma como conta a história da música e sua evolução ao longo do tempo, contextualizando-a com o momento social e cultural de seu período, é uma aula. Uma de suas principais qualidades é conseguir dar um adjetivo único para cada compositor mencionado ao longo do livro, apesar de citar mais de 100. De maneira muito habilidosa, Otto deixa claro os pontos fracos e fortes de cada músico e o quanto sua contribuição foi relevante para a construção da música ao longo do tempo. Só não dou 5/5 por um motivo: o livro não trata da “história da música”, mas sim da história da música ocidental. Vou além: da música erudita ocidental. Apesar de no prefácio o autor deixar claro que ele deliberadamente deixou de fora a história da música popular e oriental, entendo que o título do livro é mais amplo que seu conteúdo. No mais, é um livro impecável!
July 16, 2025
Bom livro de introdução à história da música. Para leigos no assunto, como eu, a leitura pode ser um pouco cansativo pela minúcia da discussão e quantidade de nomes e termos desconhecidos. De qualquer forma, é um ótimo resumo introdutório.
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