This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth global study of the role played in musical history by song collectors. This is the first in-depth global study about song …
Mäkelä's study brings together German, Nordic and Anglo-American work on Sibelius, and synthesizes these various strands of Sibelius reception into a single coherent critical …
The combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for …
It's a life of the two of us.' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. To read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret …
Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty years. With his Aspen award lecture (1964), …
Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with …
The composer's final decade sees a new outpouring of creativity. The sixth and final volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn …
As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French music. Best known for L'Apprenti sorcier, he was internationally …
This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materials. Imogen Holst was one of …
This fifth volume of Britten's letters covers a period of intense activity in his life and works, culminating in his great pacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem. The fifth …
