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Composers --- Biography --- Grainger, Percy, --- Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961. --- Composers - Biography. --- Composers - Biography
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"Malcolm Forsyth (1936-2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a captivating and approachable portrait of one of Canada's finest modern composers. Readers will discover both public and private sides to the man and gain fresh insights from critical assessments of a broad range of Forsyth's compositions, his continuing popular appreciation, and his lasting influence on the next generation of musicians and music scholars. Drawing from the perspectives of leading scholars, composers, and musicians, as well as on those of family, friends, students, and colleagues, Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth honours the rich life and cultural significance of this exceptional creative mind. It is important reading for music students and researchers, professional performers, and anyone who loves contemporary music."--
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Music --- Women composers --- Encyclopaedias --- Biography --- Encyclopedias --- Bio-bibliography --- Encyclopedias. --- Bio-bibliography. --- Women composers - Biography - Encyclopedias. --- Music - Bio-bibliography. --- Women composers - Biography - Encyclopedias --- Music - Bio-bibliography
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Composer and cultural official Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) led an unusual life even for a composer who was also a high-level diplomat. Nabokov was for nearly three decades an outstanding and far-sighted player in international cultural exchanges during the Cold War, much admired by some of the most distinguished minds of his century for the range of his interests and the breadth of his vision. Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music follows Nabokov's life through its fascinating details: a privileged Russian childhood before the Revolution; exile, first to Germany, then to France; the beginnings of a promising musical career, launched under the aegis of Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes with Ode in 1928; his twelve-year American exile during which he occupied several academic positions; his return to Europe after the war to participate in the denazification of Germany; his involvement in anti-Stalinist causes in the first years of the Cold War; his participation in the Congress for Cultural Freedom; his role as cultural adviser to the Mayor of Berlin and director of the Berlin Festival in the early 1960s; the resumption of his American academic and musical career in the late 1960s and 1970s. Nabokov is unique not only in that he was involved on a high level in international cultural politics, but also in that his life intersected at all times with a vast array of people within, and also well beyond, the confines of classical music. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources, Vincent Giroud's first-ever biography of Nabokov will be of interest readers interested in twentieth-century music, Russian music, Russian emigration, and the Cold War, particularly in its cultural aspects. Musicians and musicologists interested in Nabokov as a composer, or in twentieth century Russian composers in general, will find in the book information not available anywhere else.
Nabokov, Nikolai --- Composers --- Composers. --- Composers / Biography. --- Komponist. --- Nabokov, Nicolas, --- Nabokov, Nicolas / 1903-1978. --- USA. --- Nabokoff, Nicolas, --- Nabokov, Nikolaĭ, --- Nabokov, Nikolay,
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"Stravinsky and his world" brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century.Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa "Mavra", and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreaking "Poetics of Music", and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's "Orpheus" and "Oedipus Rex" reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate. Rare documents supplement "Stravinsky and his world" - spanish and mexican interviews, russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen french and russian articles - bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships.The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.
Musicians --- Composers --- Musiciens --- Compositeurs --- Stravinsky, Igor, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Composers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. --- Music industry. --- Stravinsky, Igor, -- 1882-1971. --- Stravinsky, Igor --- Stravinski, Igor --- Strawinsky, Igor --- Strawinski, Igor --- History and criticism. --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič. --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Istrāvīnskī, Īgūr, --- Stravinski, Igor, --- Stravinskiĭ, I. F. --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Stravinskij, Igor Fiodorovič, --- Strawiński, Igor Fiodorowicz, --- Strawinskij, Igor, --- Strawinsky, I. --- Strawinsky, Igor, --- Strawinsky, Jgor, --- Стравинский, Игорь, --- סטראווינסקי, איגור --- סטראוינסקי, איגור
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Music --- anno 1900-1999 --- Minimal music --- Musique répétitive --- Composers --- Compositeurs --- Musique --- Biography. --- History and criticism. --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique --- minimalisme --- componisten --- 20e eeuw --- muziek --- muziekgeschiedenis --- 78 --- Biography --- United States --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Meditative music --- Minimalism (Music) --- Minimalist music --- Music, Minimal --- Repetitive music --- Systematic music --- Composers - Biography. --- Minimal music - History and criticism. --- Music - United States - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Minimalisme --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Stijlstudies --- Discografieën --- Iconografie --- Amerika --- Noord-Amerika --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Groot-Brittannië --- Engeland --- Nederland --- Estland --- Young, La Monte --- Riley --- Reich, Steve (1936-) --- Glass, Philip --- Adams, John --- Monk, Meredith --- Nyman, Michael --- Andriessen, Hendrik --- Andriessen, Louis --- Pärt, Arvo (1935-)
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The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. This record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. They also allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.
Composers --- Finance, Personal --- -Finance, Personal --- -Biography --- Economic conditions --- History --- Sources --- Florence (Italy) --- Peri, Jacopo, --- Finance, Personal. --- Financial management, Personal --- Financial planning, Personal --- Personal finance --- Personal financial management --- Personal financial planning --- Songwriters --- Planning --- Zazzerino, --- Peri, Iacopo, --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Finance --- Financial literacy --- Musicians --- Forence (Tuscany) --- E-books --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Composers - Biography - Italy --- Composers - Economic conditions - 16th century - Italy - Florence --- Composers - Economic conditions - 17th century - Italy - Florence --- Finance, Personal - - History - Sources - 16th century - Italy - Florence --- Finance, Personal - - History - Sources - 17th century - Italy - Florence --- Florence (Italy) - Economic conditions - 17th century --- Florence (Italy) - Economic conditions - 16th century --- -Florence (Italy)
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