Category: EL COLEGIO NACIONAL
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Verdi y Gounod
Read moreTitle Verdi y Gounod Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244776 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Giuseppe Verdi and Charles Gounod, two great opera composers, had a very sparse personal relationship, despite being contemporaries. The former said of Gounod: “He is a great musician, but he has no dramatic substance”, while the latter commented on Verdi: “He is not only an illustrious composer, but a clever businessman”. Verdi had a life full of triumphs for his numerous works -among them La Traviata and Aida-. Gounod, in turn, is remembered today for his Ave Maria and two splendid operas: Faust and Romeo and Juliet. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Liszt y Wagner
Read moreTitle Liszt y Wagner Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244615 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner: two giants of classical music bound by family ties. The former, in spite of himself, had to accept the latter as son-in-law. Liszt generously offered his genius as a pianist and composer; Wagner used his extraordinary talent to revolutionize opera and satisfy his narcissism. Although very different in terms of personality, Franz and Richard had at least one thing in common: they both produced astonishingly original works. Here is the story of their journey and the end of their lives. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Chopin y Schumann
Read moreTitle Chopin y Schumann Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244554 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 88 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis In the same year, 1810, two sublime piano composers were born: Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann. Since his childhood, the former suffered from a lung disease that would follow him throughout his short life, while the latter, already an adult, developed a psychiatric disorder that would condemn him to die alone in a sanatorium for the mentally ill. Their paths crossed once, and they performed their own and each other's pieces on the piano. Their lives and, perhaps, their extraordinary musical creations cannot be fully understood without knowing their medical histories, which are recounted here. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Berlioz y Mendelsshon
Read moreTitle Berlioz y Mendelsshon Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244363 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 92 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Hector Berlioz and Felix Mendelssohn, renowned composers, innovative conductors, and excellent writers, formed a good friendship in their youth, despite differing in their respective musical styles. Berlioz, a genius tormented by bouts of melancholy and excitement, did not find fame in his country, unlike Mendelssohn, who is perhaps the greatest child prodigy in classical music history. Here is the account of the passionate lives of the authors of Symphonie fantastique and A Midsummer Night's Dream. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Donizeti y Bellini
Read moreTitle Donizeti y Bellini Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244240 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti, two geniuses of 19th century Italian opera, triumph in Paris under the aegis of Rossini. Bellini dies young, at the height of his productivity, under mysterious circumstances, possibly a victim of murder. Donizetti survives him, struggling against a progressive mental deterioration that finally kills him. Both their biographies should, inevitably, include an analysis of their respective medical histories. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Rossini y Schubert
Read moreTitle Rossini y Schubert Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244127 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Five years separate the births of Rossini and Schubert, yet their lives are diametrically opposite. Gioachino dies old, rich, famous, and exhausted; Franz, on the other hand, dies very young, poor, and at the height of his productivity. Schubert was influenced by Rossini, whom he admired for his operas, which were a sensation in early 19th century Vienna. Rossini did not get to know Schubert's musical work. The medical histories of these two musical giants allow us to understand the cause of Rossini's creative eclipse and the reasons behind Schubert's premature death. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Beethoven y Paganini
Read moreTitle Beethoven y Paganini Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243939 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 99 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Ludwig van Beethoven and Niccolò Paganini lived in the same time, but they had no contact, neither in person nor in writing. Although Paganini considered Beethoven's string quartets to be “extravagant”, the German composer's music surely influenced the compositions of the “diabolical” violinist, twelve years his junior, who traveled to Vienna to give recitals when Beethoven had already passed. Without meeting each other, these two geniuses were linked by the burden of deplorable health; both were in the hands of doctors as famous as incapable of relieving their torments. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Haydn y Mozart
Read moreTitle Haydn y Mozart Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244028 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 80 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Haydn and Mozart, the two greatest creative artists of the classical period, were united by music and friendship. Haydn, Europe's most famous composer during his lifetime, remarked to Mozart's father: “I tell you before God, and as an honest man, that your son is the greatest composer I know”. Mozart, in turn, referred to Haydn as “my teacher”. The same generosity and the same musical language were present in two different personalities: one, boisterous and innovative; the other, austere and conservative. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Bach y Handel
Read moreTitle Bach y Handel Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243755 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Bach and Handel, two giants of classical music, were born in the same year in Germany; however, they did not get to meet personally. Bach always remained in his country, where he had twenty children. Handel, on the other hand, made his fame and fortune in England, without ever marrying. Both lived long and prolific lives, tied by a common ending: blindness, caused by the clumsy intervention of the same apprentice eye surgeon. Through a medical-biographical assessment of the lives of these composers, the answers to various questions about genius and creativity are revealed. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Monteverdi y Vivaldi
Read moreTitle Monteverdi y Vivaldi Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243434 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 78 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis The two brilliant initiators of Baroque music, Claudio Monteverdi, father of opera, and Antonio Vivaldi, master of the violin, lived in different times, but they had commonalities: they both performed a large part of their vast work in Venice and unenthusiastically embraced priesthood. Monteverdi struggled in vain to achieve the professional and economic recognition he desired. Vivaldi successfully fought a serious pulmonary weakness that afflicted him from birth. Both died at an advanced age for the time. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
De la amibiasis al zika
Read moreTitle De la amibiasis al zika Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077241812 Edition number 1 Publication year 2016 Pages 261 Format Print and digital THEMA Medicine and Nursing Synopsis In this book, Adolfo Martínez Palomo gathers a set of articles that were originally published in the newspaper La Crónica de Hoy. The author deals with various infectious diseases, from amebiasis to zika, and the public health problem they have posed in recent decades. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Teotihuacan, ciudad excepcional en Mesoamérica
Read moreTitle Teotihuacan, ciudad excepcional en Mesoamérica Author Linda Rosa Manzanilla Naim Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077242611 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 143 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis In this work, which condenses more than four decades of multidisciplinary work dedicated to the understanding of Teotihuacan, a brief history of this city is presented, as well as the most recent discoveries about its political, cultural, religious, social, and economic organization. Each topic is presented in a pleasant and fluid manner, making it accessible to both the casual and specialized reader. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx
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