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The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition
Harold C. Schonberg
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Description for The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition
paperback. * Best single-volume guide to composers now on the market. Num Pages: 768 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 50. Weight in Grams: 522.
In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors. The great composers are here presented as human beings who lived and related to the real world. All of the important figures - Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Mahler, and many others - are included, their lives woven into a fabric ... Read more
In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors. The great composers are here presented as human beings who lived and related to the real world. All of the important figures - Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Mahler, and many others - are included, their lives woven into a fabric ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
519g
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349109725
SKU
V9780349109725
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About Harold C. Schonberg
Harold C Schonberg was born and raised in New York City. He served on the staff of the NEW YORK TIMES for nearly thirty years and was senior music critic from 1960 until 1980. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1971, the first in the field of music to receive this honour.
Reviews for The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition
Extremely readable... well founded in scholarship and well written
TLS
Panoramic, wittily detailed... equally pleasing to read from end to end, to dip casually, or to consult
NEW YORK TIMES
Packed with fruity anecdotes
OBSERVER
Peerless ... the first book any young music lover should read
GUARDIAN
TLS
Panoramic, wittily detailed... equally pleasing to read from end to end, to dip casually, or to consult
NEW YORK TIMES
Packed with fruity anecdotes
OBSERVER
Peerless ... the first book any young music lover should read
GUARDIAN