The Classic FM Guide to Classical Music: The Essential Companion to Composers and Their Music
Language: English
Published by Pavilion, UK, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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375 pages. Index. ".Begins with a masterly short history of classical music, illustrated with charts and lifelines, and concludes with a comprehensive index. Jeremy Nicholas's vibrant, informative and carefully researched text is complemented by photographs and cartoons, and teh book is designed for easy reference." -from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket price-clipped. Excellent copy.
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- Title
- The Classic FM Guide to Classical Music: The Essential Companion to Composers and Their Music
- Author
- Nicholas, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Pavilion, UK
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1857937600
- ISBN 13
- 9781857937602
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Music, Reference
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Reviews
Nicholas writes in an entertaining style with sidelights such as the fact that Adolph Adam's Cantique de Noel was featured in Home Alone and that Alan Sherman popularized the ballet music from La Giocanda. The biographies are fair and to the point--the role of Richard Strauss in Nazi Germany is described as inexcusable.
The choice of whom to include is balanced, with the author commenting in the introduction that the majority of Western classical composers are white males. Surprising omissions are Fanny Mendelssohn and the twentieth-century composers Philip Glass, John Adams, and Steve Reich. The last three are included in a chronology of composers that is preceded by a chapter on the history of music. A glossary and excellent index complete the source.
Discovering Great Music by Roy Hemming (2d ed., 1994) is a comparable title but covers fewer composers. The Classic FM Guide is a recommended source for public and academic libraries. It would also find a place in home libraries of classical music aficionados.
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