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Britten: The Musical Character and Other Writings
Hans Keller
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Description for Britten: The Musical Character and Other Writings
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A selection of Hans Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten including previously unseen correspondence and reprints of long unavailable writings. It was hearing an early performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes that turned the young emigré writer and musician Hans Keller from psychology to music. Thereafter he became the composer's most fervent advocate, devoting to him a whole issue of Music Survey (the journal he edited with Donald Mitchell) and the first comprehensive book on his music (again edited with Mitchell). This volume is a selection of the best of his writings, dealing withPeter Grimesthrough to Death in Venice and ... Read more
A selection of Hans Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten including previously unseen correspondence and reprints of long unavailable writings. It was hearing an early performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes that turned the young emigré writer and musician Hans Keller from psychology to music. Thereafter he became the composer's most fervent advocate, devoting to him a whole issue of Music Survey (the journal he edited with Donald Mitchell) and the first comprehensive book on his music (again edited with Mitchell). This volume is a selection of the best of his writings, dealing withPeter Grimesthrough to Death in Venice and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Plumbago Books and Arts United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780956600745
SKU
V9780956600745
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Reviews for Britten: The Musical Character and Other Writings
The most important publishing event [of the Britten centenary year] , November 2013
AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW November 2013
This splendid volume is a timely reminder of Keller's forensic intellect and pungent style of writing, and is likely to be the most important written contribution to the centenary cornucopia.
GRAMOPHONE, December 2013
AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW November 2013
This splendid volume is a timely reminder of Keller's forensic intellect and pungent style of writing, and is likely to be the most important written contribution to the centenary cornucopia.
GRAMOPHONE, December 2013