Gerald Finzi - An English Composer

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Banfield is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, having held the Stanley Hugh Badock chair there from 2003 to 2012. From 1992 to 2003 he was Elgar Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham. His highly acclaimed biography of Gerald Finzi was published by Faber in 1997, and he is also the author of Sensibility and English Song , Sondheim's Broadway Musicals , Jerome Kern , and Music in the West Country . Klappentext The music of Gerald Finzi! whose popularity has enjoyed a great resurgence! is rooted in the tradition of Elgar! Parry! Vaughan Williams and those composers for whom song writing was a principal means of expression. This biography reveals Finzi as a more complex and engaged figure than he is often given credit for. Zusammenfassung The music of Gerald Finzi, whose popularity has enjoyed a great resurgence, is rooted in the tradition of Elgar, Parry, Vaughan Williams and those composers for whom song writing was a principal means of expression. This biography reveals Finzi as a more complex and engaged figure than he is often given credit for.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen Banfield, Banfield Stephen
• Mitarbeit: Stephe Banfield (Herausgeber), Stephen Banfield (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 22.01.2009
• EAN: 9780571248476
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24847-6
• Seiten: 594
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 234 mm x 43 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Hauptwerk vor 1945; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Monografien; MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Composers; Faber Finds; Jewish; Musicology