Classical Music: The Rough Guide

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Joe Staines, Jonathan Buckley
Rough Guides, 1998 - Music - 505 pages
The Rough Guide to Classical Music is a unique handbook, spanning eight centuries of music from medieval Masses to works by contemporaries such as Judith Weir and Michael Torke. Both a buyer's guide and a who's who, it features concise biographical sketches of some 160 composers, explaining their social and musical contexts; more than 150 illustrations, including some rarely seen archive photos; revealing summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from solo flute pieces to operas with casts of hundreds; and incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting both the best of the latest recordings and the pick of the classic reissues.

Contents

Tomaso Albinoni
130
Ludwig van Beethoven
151
MarieJoseph Canteloube
202
Elizabeth Maconchy
234
Giacomo Meyerbeer
260
Hans Pfitzner
304
Joaquín Rodrigo
484
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About the author (1998)

Jonathan Buckley is the author of the short story Briar Road which won the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 with a monetary award of $31,890.

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