The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961

Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies and David Pear (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0198163770 / ISBN 13: 9780198163770

Published by Clarendon Press, 1994

About this Item

First Edition in New condition hardback, Oxford house-style black boards gilt titling to spine. 301 pp illustrated with b&w photos. Clean and bright throughout with no inscription. These letters "reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world" (Blurb). A handsome volume from the Clarendon Press.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198163770
• ISBN 13: 9780198163770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: B&W photo illustrations.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger's "American" years, 1914-61. These letters are fascination to read: they are cultivated "rambles" (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions), not dissimilar to today's telephone conversations. Often written in Grainger's crunchy "Blue-eyed English", they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life. They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world.

About the Author

Malcolm Gillies has written widely on twentieth-century music, including many books on Béla Bartók, including Bartók in Britain: A Guided Tour (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989), Notation and Tonal Structure in Bartók's Later Works (New York: Garland, 1989), and Bartók Remembered (Faber and Faber, 1990, New York W.W. Norton's, 1991), and is editor of The Life and Music of Béla Bartók, by Halsey Stevens (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993), and The Bartók Companion (Faber and Faber, January 1994). He lives in Queensland, Australia. David Pear, a theologian and educator, worked as as Senior Research Assistant on the Grainger Letters project between 1990 and 1992, and also lives in Queensland, Australia.