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100 1 _aBrook, Donald
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aComposers' gallery :
_bbiographical sketches of contemporary composers /
_cby Donald Brook.
260 _aSalisbury Square, London :
_bRockliff,
_c1946.
300 _a218 p. :
_bports. ;
_c23 cm.
505 _tPART I: Some Contemporary British Composers :
_tSir Arnold Bax --
_tLennox Berkeley --
_tArthur Bliss --
_tRutland Boughton --
_tYork Bowen --
_tBenjamin Britten -- --
_tEric Coates --
_tHarold Darke --
_tThomas Dunhill --
_tSir George Dyson --
_tArmstrong Gibbs --
_tEugene Gossens --
_tVictor Hely-Hutchinson --
_tJohn Ireland --
_tGordon Jacob --
_tRoger Quilter --
_tEdmund Rubbra --
_tCyril Scott --
_tMichael Tippett --
_tWilliam Walton --
_tR. Vaughan Williams --
_tPART II: Some Contemporaries of Other Nations
_tBéla Bartók --
_tErnest Bloch --
_tAlfredo Casella --
_tAaron Copland --
_tManuel de Falla --
_tReingold Gliere --
_tRoy Harris --
_tPaul Hindemith --
_tArthur Honegger --
_tAram Khachaturian --
_tGian Francesco Malipiero --
_tNicolai Miaskovsky --
_tDarius Milhaud --
_tSergei Prokofiev --
_tArnold Schönberg --
_tDmitri Shostakovich --
_tJean Sibelius --
_tIgor Stravinsky.
520 _a"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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