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There was, perhaps, no more imaginative a tribute to Bach in 2000, the year which marked the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, than The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage undertaken by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists under their conductor, Sir John Eliot Gardiner. This was not only the most talked about celebration of Bach's music but also that which must undoubtedly have generated the most performances of it. In the course of a single year, these musicians performed Bach's entire surviving cantata oeuvre -- amounting to almost 200 works -- in Abbeys, Cathedrals, churches and chapels throughout Europe and, indeed, much further afield. It was as appropriate and as fulsome a tribute to the Leipzig Thomaskantor as anyone could wish for, beginning on Christmas Day 1999 in Weimar's Herderkirche, and concluding in St. Bartholomew's Church, New York on 31st December 2000. Fifteen countries were visited and ninety concerts given, attracting large and enthusiastic audiences, some of whose individuals followed conductor, choir and instrumentalists from one venue to another.

Sir John Tavener, knighted in 2000 (one year before this documentary's release), is a one-of-a-kind composer. This documentary brings us into the heart of the composer's dense and complex personality. While the master of slow, reflective, singing music, with diverse and exotic sources of inspiration, the Englishman always remained closely attached to his native country, in which he is widely admired and celebrated. Many of his compositions are based on poems by British authors, in particular works by William Blake. A devout Christian, he also wrote a lot of religious music, influenced not just by Christianity but also by Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, among other religions. Sick with Marfan syndrome, he died in 2013 at 69 years old.

• Truths and illusions : rethinking what we know
• Rediscovering the American Apollon musagète : Stravinsky, Coolidge, and the forgotten Washington connection
• Fathers and sons : remembering Sviatoslav Soulima
• The would-be Hollywood composer : Stravinsky, the literati, and "the dream factory"
• Television and The flood : anatomy of an "inglorious flop"
• Film documentaries : the composer on and off camera
• Letters, books, private thoughts : reading between the lines
• Boswellizing an icon : Stravinsky, Craft, and the historian's dilemma.

Popularly known during his lifetime as the world's greatest living composer, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century's most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky's two sides - the public persona, preoccupied with his own image and place in history, and the private composer, whose views and beliefs were often purposely suppressed. Charles M. Joseph draws a richer and more human portrait of Stravinsky than anyone has done before, using an array of unpublished materials and unreleased film trims from the composer's huge archive at the Paul Sacher Institute in Switzerland. Focusing on Stravinsky's place in the culture of the twentieth century, Joseph situates the composer among the giants of his age. He discusses Stravinsky's first American commission, his complicated relationship with his son, his professional relationships with celebrities ranging from T. S. Eliot to Orson Welles, his flirtations with Hollywood and television, and his love-hate attitude toward the critics and the media. In a close look at Stravinsky's efforts to mould a public image, Joseph explores the complex dance between the composer and his artistic collaborator, Robert Craft, who orchestrated controversial efforts to protect Stravinsky and edit materials about him, both during the composer's lifetime and after his death.
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• disc 1. Piano trio no. 2 in C minor, op. 66 / Felix Mendelssohn (30:07)
• Piano trio in D minor, op. 11 / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (26:48)
• disc 2. The Mendelssohns: the artist's place in high society with Jaap Schröder, Enid Sutherland, Penelope Crawford (23:55)

• Franz Liszt: Life and Works / Franz Liszt (Jeremy Siepmann, reader).

• Chopin and the soul of the piano (1:49)
• Berceuse, op. 57 (2:17)
• Chopin the pole (1:48)
• Polonaise in G minor (1:04)
• Early education (3:05)
• Variation on a German air (1:33)
• Encounters with the Polish peasantry (1:02)
• Mazurka in G major (1:13)
• Chopin as industrious pupil (:58)
• Sonata in C minor. Opening (1:49)
• He finds his true voice as a composer (1:50)
• Ronda a la mazur, op. 5 (1:05)
• The fun-loving teenager (1:17)
• Ecossaise, op. 72, no. 3 (:45)
• Onset of illness and the death of a sister (2:05)
• Nocturne in E minor (4:32)
• "Hats off, gentlemen! A genius!" (1:36)
• Variation on "La ci darem la mano, " op. 2 (3:41)
• The influence of Paganini (1:19)
• Souvenir de Paganini (1:19)
• The first etudes (:44)
• Etude in C♯ minor, op. 10, no. 4 (2:15)
• Success in Vienna (5:58)
• Nocturne in C♯ minor (1:23)
• Chopin in love (5:19)
• Polonaise for cello and piano (1:33)
• Stagnation, celebrity and the first concerto (2:18)
• Concerto in F minor, op. 21 (1:42)
• Return of vitality and inspiration (5:10)
• Concerto in E minor, op. 11 (10:49)
• Farewells and the final departure from Poland (1:38)
• Europe and Chopin in crisis (7:43)
• Scherzo no. 1 in B minor (4:28)
• Arrival in Paris (2:24)
• Waltz in E♭, op. 18 (5:31)
• Paris, politics, poles and performance (7:40)
• Impromptu in A♭, op. 29 (4:27)
• Chopin and the opera (1:49)
• Andante spianato, op. 22 (4:37)
• Chopin and Kalkbrenner (2:15)
• Etude in G♭, op. 10, no. 5 (1:47)
• The cholera epidemic ; The fashionable teacher (7:52)
• Etude in C minor, op. 10, no. 12 : "The revolutionary" (3:02)
• Teaching in earnest (4:58)
• Etude in A minor, op. 25, no. 4 (1:47)
• "Souplesse avant tout!" (2:24)
• Nocturne in B♭ minor, op. 9, no. 1 (5:34)
• The Wodzinska affair (3:43)
• Nocturne in B major, op. 32, no. 1 (2:08)
• "An elegant, pale, sad young man" (2:14)
• Nocturne in D♭, op. 27, no. 2 (6:10)
• George Sand and a Majorcan winter (22:08)
• Preludes, op. 28 (6:17)
• Misanthropy, hypocrisy and prejudice (3:38)
• Mazurkas (7:25)
• At Nohant : an idyllic and creative summer (2:33)
• Impromptu in F♯ (5:47)
• The idyll continues (4:57)
• Sonata in B♭ minor. Funeral march ; Finale (10:41)
• The return to Paris (2:27)
• Ballade no. 4 in F minor (12:11)
• Chopin grows moody, petulant and volatile (5:57)
• Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58. Finale (5:33)
• Failing health and mounting tensions (4:34)
• Barcarolle, op. 60 (8:42)
• The break with Sand ; Illness ; London (12:33)
• Prelude in F♯, op. 28, no. 8 (1:53)
• Scotland, London, Paris ; Decline and death (14:01)
• Polonaise in A♭, op. 53 (7:13).

Biography of Frédéric Chopin with music examples.

• Childhood and youth (:22)
• Symphony no. 1 in A. Finale (5:11)
• Hammerklavier sonata, op. 106. Excerpt (4:31)
• Beethoven as a pianist (4:24)
• Sonata in C, op. 2, no. 3. Excerpt (4:58)
• Beethoven as pianist (4:25)
• German dance, WoO 8, no. 4 (6:24)
• Beethoven's Vienna (7:50)
• Sextet in E♭, op.81b. First movement (2:13)
• Beethoven as friend, pupil and artist (7:41)
• Trio in C minor, op. 1, no. 1. Finale (7:14)
• Piano concerto no. 2 in B♭. Finale (5:59)
• The onset of deafness (3:29)
• Appassionata sonata. Finale (8:10)
• The crest of the wave (:38)
• Septet in B♭. Scherzo (6:53)
• Sonata pathétique, op. 13. Excerpt (3:18)
• Beethoven in love (3:37)
• Piano sonata in C♯ minor, op. 27, no. 2. Excerpt (1:24)
• A winning streak (1:11)
• Symphony no. 2 in D. Finale. Excerpt (3:04)
• Beethoven in crisis : the Heiligenstadt testament (5:24)
• Eroica symphony. Funeral march. Excerpt (3:55)
• Beethoven and heroism (6:24)
• Eroica symphony. Finale. Excerpt (1:52)
• Beethoven the revolutionary (2:54)
• Razumovsky quartet op. 59, no. 1. Adagio. Excerpt (3:58)
• Beethoven and women (8:15)
• Violin concerto in D, op. 61. First movement. Excerpt (6:24)
• Beethoven the performer (6:56)
• Emperor concerto. Finale. Excerpt (10:00)
• Beethoven and suffering (:56)
• Cariolan overture (8:24)
• Fifth symphony. First movement (complete) (7:30) ; Finale. Excerpt (1:24)
• Beethoven and the transcendence of suffering (2:17)
• Seventh symphony. First movement. Excerpt (4:16)
• Beethoven, Goethe and self-pity (2:59)
• Beethoven on his method of composing (1:57)
• Beethoven and unrequited love (3:11)
• Serioso quartet, op. 95. First movement (4:52)
• The immortal beloved (7:59)
• Violin sonata in G, op. 96. First movement (10:03)
• To the brink of suicide-and beyond (3:00)
• Battle symphony. Excerpt (2:54)
• Fidelio. Prisoner's chorus (7:12)
• Archiduke trio (4:07)
• Beethoven "kidnaps" Karl (8:48)
• Beethoven's manner & appearance (3:16)
• Pastoral symphony. Excerpt (2:55)
• Beethoven as a "parent" (17:22)
• Piano sonata no. 32, op. 111 (4:50)
• Beethoven and friendship (4:27)
• His attitudes to publication (1:10)
• Beethoven as conductor (1:21)
• Ninth symphony. Scherzo. Excerpt (3:53)
• His final works (1:53)
• String quartet in B♭, op. 130 : "Cavatina" (7:06)
• Beethoven's death (5:29)
• Music 6. Ninth symphony. Excerpt (4:01).

A portrait of Lalo Schifrin, pianist, composer, and orchestra conductor, known for his film and television scores.

In this, the first English biography to capture Gainsbourg in all his contradiction and gleeful outrageousness, Simmons tells the fascinating story of the Gallic star. Drawing on hours of new interviews with his intimates-among them Jane Birkin, Sly & Robbie, Marianne Faithfull, and celebrated producer Philippe Lerichomme-Simmons describes in crackling prose the scope of Gainsbourg's achievement while doing full justice to his complicated emotional life. Simmons's work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius.
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This is the remarkable autobiography of composer and pianist Henry Mancini, whose more than ninety film scores include The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Touch of Evil, and Victor/Victoria.
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• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part One:Bartok's Life
• Chapter 1. EARLY MUSICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN HUNGARY
• Chapter 2. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: 1881-1899
• Chapter 3. SUMMARY OF HUNGARIAN MUSICAL DIALECT: 1889-1905
• Chapter 4. FUSION OF NATIONAL SYTLES: 1906-1925
• Chapter 5. SYNTHESIS OF EAST AND WEST: 1926-1945
• Part Two: Folk Musik Research Chapter 6. HUNGARIAN FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 7. SLOVAK FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 8. ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 9. ARAB FOLK MUSIC FROM THE BISKRA DISTRICT
• Chapter 10. RUTHENIAN FOLK MELODY
• Chapter 11. YUGOSLAV FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 12. BULGARIAN FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 13. TURKISH FOLK MUSIC FROM ASIA MINOR
• Epilogue
• List of Compositions and Editions
• Personalia
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index--.
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This book is the first comprehensive biographical study of Bartok as man, composer, and folklorist, including the background and development of his unique musical language and the impact of his pioneering investigations of multinational musical folklore on his composed works.
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• Contributors include Istvan Anhalt, composer and writer John Beckwith (Toronto), music theorist and critic William Benjamin (British Columbia), specialist in twentieth-century music Austin Clarkson (York), Robin Elliott, music historian Helmut Kallmann, David Keane, founder of the Electroacoustic Music Studio at Queen=s, Carl Morey, editor of the musical works of Glenn Gould and professor at Queen=s, composer George Rochberg, and Gordon E. Smith.
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The first comprehensive study of Canadian composer and musician Istvan Anhalt.
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Elgar was England's greatest late romantic composer. His symphonies, the "Enigma Variations" and oratorios made him the toast of Europe and America during his lifetime. His ceremonial music, such as the "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", made him a national institution. But there was a more troubled and less confident side to him which can be heard in his chamber music and concertos. This revised edition explores his life from his background in a Worcester music shop to his final years as Master of the King's Music and the first composer to make recordings of all his work.
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• Prelude: Wesley's family
• Wesley's homes and addresses. Chronology: significant events in Wesley's life. Calendar of correspondence: introduction
• new information arising from the correspondence
• History and prior publication of the correspondence
• calendar of dated correspondence
• calendar of undated correspondence
• calendar of doubtful correspondence. Musical works: introduction
• history of the music manuscripts
• sacred vocal music
• secular vocal music
• orchestral music
• chamber music
• organ music
• harpsichord and pianoforte music
• dedicatees
• discography
• Wesley's editions and arrangements. Literary works: printed works
• manuscript works. Portraits: iconography
• verbal portraits. Bibliography: Wesley's library
• publications about Wesley
• index to the calendar of correspondence.
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Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J.S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarize the content of over 1100 surviving letters and other documents, most of which have not previously been published. The book accordingly reveals considerable new information about Wesley and his complex personal affairs, including his incarceration for debt and his confinement in a lunatic asylum for a year. Many details are provided about London musical life in the era from Boyce to Mendelssohn that prior scholars have not taken into account. The book also presents a chronology of Wesley's life, a descriptive list of his nearly 550 musical and literary works, a discography, an iconography and a bibliography. It is therefore intended to be the most comprehensive available reference source for Wesley's life, times and music.
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• Truths and illusions : rethinking what we know
• Rediscovering the American Apollon musagète : Stravinsky, Coolidge, and the forgotten Washington connection
• Fathers and sons : remembering Sviatoslav Soulima
• The would-be Hollywood composer : Stravinsky, the literati, and "the dream factory"
• Television and The flood : anatomy of an "inglorious flop"
• Film documentaries : the composer on and off camera
• Letters, books, private thoughts : reading between the lines
• Boswellizing an icon : Stravinsky, Craft, and the historian's dilemma.

Popularly known during his lifetime as the world's greatest living composer, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century's most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky's two sides - the public persona, preoccupied with his own image and place in history, and the private composer, whose views and beliefs were often purposely suppressed. Charles M. Joseph draws a richer and more human portrait of Stravinsky than anyone has done before, using an array of unpublished materials and unreleased film trims from the composer's huge archive at the Paul Sacher Institute in Switzerland. Focusing on Stravinsky's place in the culture of the twentieth century, Joseph situates the composer among the giants of his age. He discusses Stravinsky's first American commission, his complicated relationship with his son, his professional relationships with celebrities ranging from T. S. Eliot to Orson Welles, his flirtations with Hollywood and television, and his love-hate attitude toward the critics and the media. In a close look at Stravinsky's efforts to mould a public image, Joseph explores the complex dance between the composer and his artistic collaborator, Robert Craft, who orchestrated controversial efforts to protect Stravinsky and edit materials about him, both during the composer's lifetime and after his death.
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"Impressed with how European music could have a "German sound", a "French sound", and so on, Aaron Copland returned from his years in Paris to New York City, intent on capturing the essence of the "American sound." This documentary presents an artful blending of the life and music of one of America's great modern composers. The many milestones in Copland's long career are discussed by his biographer, Howard Pollock, while stirring images of Copland's native city are set to selections of his music as performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. FRSO conductor Hugh Wolff provides astute commentary. Many interviews with Copland are included, along with a historic recording of "Clarinet Concerto" with Benny Goodman playing and Copland conducting"--Container.

This program presents a living biography of a musical innovator whose career began over fifty years ago with the avant-garde movement.

• Cheltenham through student days at the Royal College of Music
• the professional trombonist
• girls' schools and folk tunes
• Morley College
• 10, The Terrace, Barnes
• more suites and "The Cloud Messenger"
• new music wing, dirge and "The Planets"
• Thaxted and "The Hymn of Jesus"
• wartime services with the YMCA
• the education of composers
• in the wake of "The Planets"
• coping with fame
• an invitation from America
• first American visit
• recordings, first choral symphony, at the Boar's Head, music for amateurs
• the Damrosch Commission
• the premieres of Egdon Heath
• a second American invitation
• second American visit
• 1929-1931
• the bells
• Harvard beckons
• the star conductor
• New York
• the Harvard professor
• Montreal and return to New York
• Boston and Washington DC
• recovery
• return to Ann Arbor
• farewell to America
• late 1932
• Carlisle
• lyric movement and Brook Green suite
• the song of Solomon
• the final months.
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Based upon and containing many of Holst's own personal letters, diaries and notebook entries, this study provides an intimate portrait of this larger-than-life personality. Many of Holst's innermost thoughts regarding musical composition, performance and music education are disclosed here. In addition, there is a significant amount of information concerning Holst's work ethics at all six of his places of employment. It also provides a view of the composer from this side of the Atlantic, shedding considerable light on Holst's plans and activities regarding his three American visits that is not found in the other biographies. A significant numbr of chapters are devoted to Holst's 1932 semester-long lectureship at Harvard University. The appendices include examples of Holst's manuscripts, thumbnail sketches of persons associated with his career, and (unique to this text) a chronological listing of his compositions.
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• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• A CHRONICLE OF BEETHOVEN'S LIFE
• DICTIONARY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS
• INDEX OF BEETHOVEN'S WORKS
• INDEX OF NAMES.
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Following the author's acclaimed biographical dictionaries on Schubert and Mozart, 'Beethoven and His World' offers an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the composer's relations with a multitude of persons with whom he associated on a personal or professional basis: relatives, friends, acquaintances, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and musicians. With more than 450 entries, the dictionary is the result of a wide-ranging examination of primary and secondary sources, and critically assesses the use which scholars have made of the considerable documentation now available. In particular, there are numerous references to Beethoven's correspondence and conversation books, which have recently been published in excellent new editions. The book places the composer and his music in a fuller context and a wider perspective than might be possible in a traditional biography; it will appeal to all music lovers, both the scholar and the non-specilaist alike.
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Berlioz's own memoirs have become a classic of musical literature, but they are inevitably self-regarding. Michael Rose's book presents the other side of the picture - the effect he had on other people, whether friends or enemies, supporters, critics, or just plain observers.
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• Oldham and Oxford
• Sitwellian patronage
• poetry through a megaphone
• the white hope of British music
• "throw in a couple of brass bands"
• unfinished - con malizia
• a reel composer
• films again - and radio
• "terribly dull without the music"
• Troilus and Ischia
• "desperate to find a tune". Appendices: Lambert on Walton
• Walton on Lambert
• Walton on films
• recording the music by Muir Mathieson
• the "Facade" poems
• reviews of "Facade"
• list of works.
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When in June 1923 a bewildered audience in London's Aeolian Hall heard Edith Sitwell declaim her "Facade" poems through a megaphone, the 21-year-old William Walton - conducting behind a painted backcloth - stood on the threshold of fame. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was regarded as the white hope of British music, and a succession of works including the Viola Concerto, Belshazzar's Feast and the First Symphony more than fulfilled that early promise; he was also one of the first serious composers to be involved in films. Using first-hand accounts, this book explodes the myth of "Facade's" riotous reception, examines Walton's work in both films and radio and, through contemporary correspondence, articles and interviews - wherever possible in his own words - explores Walton's life and troubled times.It brings to the fore his complex personality - 'remote, removed, distant' in Laurence Olivier's words, in dynamic contrast with music of such vitality and drama. Composition for him was an arduous, often painful, process riddled with difficulties, uncertainties and self-doubts, and further complicated by several love affairs (one being with Italy) that inspired his finest works. Stephen Lloyd's previous books include a biography of H. Balfour Gardiner and a collection of Eric Fenby's writings on Delius, which he edited. In addition to record sleeve notes, programme notes, reviews and articles, he has contributed to the Percy Grainger Companion, the "Studies in Music Grainger Centennial Volume", "An Elgar Companion", and volumes on "Delius", "Walton" and "Bliss".
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A critical re-evaluation of the causes of Beethoven's many illnesses, especially his deafness. It offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death and burial.
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An examination of Mendelssohn's life and music. The first three chapters place the composer in his historical context and discuss his family and social circle. Later chapters explore the major areas of his compositional work, providing analytical observations, perspectives and interpretations.
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Robert Schumann, one of the most beloved composers of the Romantic movement, embodied the passion and imaginative spirit of his age. Known for his musical and literary genius and his legendary romance with his wife Clara, Schumann was also plagued with debilitative bouts of depression that led him to live his last days in a German mental asylum. This important new biography recreates the dynamics of this man and his music with unprecedented range, offering new insight into his final years and his lasting musical achievements. Based on Schumann's recently published journals, letters, and new research, author Eric Jensen renders a balanced portrait of the composer with both scholarly authority and engaging clarity. Biographical chapters alternate with commentary on Schumann's piano, choral, symphonic, and operatic works, demonstrating how the circumstances of his life helped shape the music he wrote at various periods. Chronicling the forbidden romance of Robert and Clara, Jensen offers a nuanced look at the evolution of their relationship. He also follows Schuman's creative musical criticism, which championed the burgeoning careers of Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms and challenged the musical tastes of nineteenth-century Europe. Most importantly, he presents new evidence that Schumann-locked away in the asylum at Endenich-had returned sufficiently to health to justify his removal from confinement a year before his death. Like the innovations of his final compositions from 1845-1854, his sanity was overlooked and misunderstood by his contemporaries. Jensen corrects the historical record, illuminating the tragedy of Schumann's final days and refuting the common dismissal of his final works as the result of an unstable mind. A significant addition to music literature, Schumann is the first authoritative biography of the composer written for general readers as well as music students and historians.
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Re-examination of Monteverdi's work while he was Director of Music at St Mark's.
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