"The ambient Century reveals the drift in twentieth-century music. From composers to non-musicians. From strict rules to no rules. From the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugu…
"The ambient Century reveals the drift in twentieth-century music. From composers to non-musicians. From strict rules to no rules. From the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugu…
A portrait of the great composer examines his final years, his legendary affair with novelist George Sand, his life as an artist in exile, and his decline and destitute final days.
"This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. J.C. Bach had a cosmopolitan career, beginning in Berlin as a pupil of his half-brother, C.P.E. Bach, then a sojourn t…
In 1863-64, the author penned what remains today the most extensive biography of Antonio Salieri in the English language. In a lively style, abounding with wit and commentary on current events, the author presents a thorough account of Salieri's life, dealing objectively with su…
Om den græsk-franske komponist og arkitekt Jannis Xenakis, født 1922.
Levensbeschrijving van de van oorsprong Griekse componist, architect en ingenieur (geb. ca. 1921) die nu in Frankrijk woont en werkt
