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Title: The Lives of the Great Composers
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0393038572
EAN: 9780393038576
ISBN: 9780393038576
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 05/12/1997
Description: In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influenced by their predecessors. Schonberg discusses the lives and works of the foremost figures in classical music, among them Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, the Schumanns, Copland, and Stravinsky, weaving a fabric rich in detail and anecdote. He also includes the creators of light music, such as Gilbert and Sullivan and the Strausses.

Schonberg has extended the volume's coverage to provide informative and clearly written descriptions of the later serialists such as Stockhausen and Carter, the iconoclastic John Cage, the individualistic Messiaen, minimalist composers, the new tonalists, and women composers of all eras, including Mendelssohn Hensel, Chaminade, Smyth, Beach, and Zwilich. Scattered throughout are many changes and additions reflecting musicological findings of the past fifteen years.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 244mm
Item Length: 168mm
Item Width: 48mm
Item Weight: 1075g
Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Year: 1997

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