Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of an Australian ComposerPeter Sculthorpe is Australia’s best-known living composer and is widely held to be the most important composer the country has yet produced. This, the first biography of the composer, tells the fascinating story of his rise to prominence. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorized biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe's formative years: his quest for a personal voice, and his arrival--through many creative friendships and collaborations--at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It is also a social history, charting the rise of modernism in Australian music through the eyes of its key player. |
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
A small place 19291938 | 15 |
Out of step 19391945 | 54 |
To the mainland 19461950 | 92 |
Strings in the earth and air 19511955 | 142 |
Ulterior motifs 19561958 | 168 |
Dreaming spires 19581960 | 200 |
The fifth continent 19611963 | 252 |
A dazzling progress 19631964 | 309 |
Always austere Australian 1965 | 362 |
Imaginary landscapes 1966 | 422 |
Full of tunes 19671968 | 472 |
The love thing 19681970 | 513 |
The stars turn 19711972 | 566 |
Rebirth 19731974 | 613 |
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