Composers' gallery : biographical sketches of contemporary composers / by Donald Brook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salisbury Square, London : Rockliff, 1946.Description: 218 p. : ports. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0836980360
  • 9780836980363
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 780.922 BRO
LOC classification:
  • ML390 .B857
Contents:
PART I: Some Contemporary British Composers : Sir Arnold Bax -- Lennox Berkeley -- Arthur Bliss -- Rutland Boughton -- York Bowen -- Benjamin Britten -- -- Eric Coates -- Harold Darke -- Thomas Dunhill -- Sir George Dyson -- Armstrong Gibbs -- Eugene Gossens -- Victor Hely-Hutchinson -- John Ireland -- Gordon Jacob -- Roger Quilter -- Edmund Rubbra -- Cyril Scott -- Michael Tippett -- William Walton -- R. Vaughan Williams -- PART II: Some Contemporaries of Other Nations Béla Bartók -- Ernest Bloch -- Alfredo Casella -- Aaron Copland -- Manuel de Falla -- Reingold Gliere -- Roy Harris -- Paul Hindemith -- Arthur Honegger -- Aram Khachaturian -- Gian Francesco Malipiero -- Nicolai Miaskovsky -- Darius Milhaud -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Arnold Schönberg -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Igor Stravinsky.
Summary: "In this volume of 40 compact biographies the reader meets some of the most interesting and significant characters in modern music. Concise and informative, each sketch is alive with anecdotes and vitally important opinions expressed by the biographees, with helpful comments on their more important works. To music lovers, professional or amateur, this attractive work by the author of that highly-successful book Conductors' gallery cannot fail to be of of outstanding interest."--Jacket.
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PART I: Some Contemporary British Composers : Sir Arnold Bax -- Lennox Berkeley -- Arthur Bliss -- Rutland Boughton -- York Bowen -- Benjamin Britten -- -- Eric Coates -- Harold Darke -- Thomas Dunhill -- Sir George Dyson -- Armstrong Gibbs -- Eugene Gossens -- Victor Hely-Hutchinson -- John Ireland -- Gordon Jacob -- Roger Quilter -- Edmund Rubbra -- Cyril Scott -- Michael Tippett -- William Walton -- R. Vaughan Williams -- PART II: Some Contemporaries of Other Nations Béla Bartók -- Ernest Bloch -- Alfredo Casella -- Aaron Copland -- Manuel de Falla -- Reingold Gliere -- Roy Harris -- Paul Hindemith -- Arthur Honegger -- Aram Khachaturian -- Gian Francesco Malipiero -- Nicolai Miaskovsky -- Darius Milhaud -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Arnold Schönberg -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Igor Stravinsky.

"In this volume of 40 compact biographies the reader meets some of the most interesting and significant characters in modern music. Concise and informative, each sketch is alive with anecdotes and vitally important opinions expressed by the biographees, with helpful comments on their more important works. To music lovers, professional or amateur, this attractive work by the author of that highly-successful book Conductors' gallery cannot fail to be of of outstanding interest."--Jacket.

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