Hakutulokset: Sarja Musical Lives
yhteensä 21 hakutulosta
The Life of Schubert
Franz Schubert’s tragically short life was spent in one of Europe’s most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven, adored Rossini, and thrilled to Paganini. …
The Life of Haydn
Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of the composer's long career. In his lifetime …
The Life of Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year …
The Life of Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen stands as one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century and among the foremost religious artists of any era. When he died in 1992, the prevailing …
The Life of Elgar
This important new biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which have become available in the last twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music …
Life of Musorgsky
This book, first published in 1999, is a biography of Russia's greatest musical dramatist, Modest Musorgsky (1839-81).
The Life of Charles Ives
Charles Ives grew up in the nineteenth century and composed chiefly in the twentieth. His nostalgia for a simpler life in the New England country town of his youth is revealed in …
The Life of Schubert
Franz Schubert's tragically short life was spent in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven, adored Rossini, and thrilled to Paganini. …
The Life of Musorgsky
Modest Musorgsky is Russia’s greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single …
The Life of Beethoven
‘My compositions bring me in a good deal … I state my price and they pay.’ Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David …
The Life of Mendelssohn
Famous for a handful of compositions that continue to sparkle with originality, Mendelssohn, as conductor and scholar, was also one of the principal architects of the musical canon …
The Life of Mozart
Mozart was not only an extraordinary musical genius but a man who lived through the great change from the old society to the modern one in which we still live, when people began to …