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The Ninth
Harvey Sachs
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Description for The Ninth
Paperback. A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. This memoir explains how the premiere of Beethoven's staggering last symphony was emblematic of its time. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196.
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the Turkish massacre of Greeks at Chios and Pushkin's anti-tyrannical play Boris Godunov all signalled that the desire for freedom was not dead. And all of these works and events were part of the flowering of the High Romantic period.
In The Ninth, eminent music historian and biographer ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571221462
SKU
V9780571221462
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99-88
About Harvey Sachs
Harvey Sachs is a writer and music historian. His many books include standard biographies of Arturo Toscanini and Arthur Rubinstein, Music in Fascist Italy and Virtuoso. He assisted Plácido Domingo and Sir Georg Solti with their memoirs and has written for many journals and newspapers including the TLS, the Guardian, the Observer, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, the New Yorker, the ... Read more
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