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Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet he was an influential and thoughtful artist and cultural commentator. This book brings together all his published and draft articles, unpublished…
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Paul Kildea
This title explores the effect of commercial and national institutions on the music of one of the foremost British composers of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten.
Presents an account of Britten’s life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. This…
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A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music
Chopin’s Piano begins in November 1838, when George Sand, her children…
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An exceptionally fine book: erudite, digressive, urbane and deeply moving. -Wall Street Journal
The captivating story of Frederic Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
