Modern Masters: Bartok, Stravinsky, Hindemith (The New Grove Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393315924 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Second, Igor Stravinsky, whose lifefrom his upbringing in prerevolutionary Russia, through the intellectual crucible that was the Paris of the 1920s, to his final years in Los Angeles and New Yorkis charted by Eric Walter White, while his works are tellingly set in context by Jeremy Noble. Third, Paul Hindemith, the craftsman/composer par excellence, is considered by Ian Kemp. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Taken together, these articles brilliantly illuminate the forces bearing on Western music in the early to mid-20th century.. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most comprehensive and up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. First, the life and works of Béla Bartók, the Hungarian composer who drew deeply on the folklore of his homeland to bring a fresh vitality into 20th-century music, are treated by László Somfai and Vera Lampert, working with resources of the Budapest Bartók Archive. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition
"Good biographies" according to Sharon Wilfong. This is a good book for readable and not too long overviews of composer's lives. They are essays by different people, possibly from a larger work but even though they are concise, they are very informative and interesting.