Perfect Pitch - An Autobiography

The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.

About the author

Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was a Russian-born United-States-based writer, lexicographer, pianist, composer, conductor, and champion of contemporary music. His many books include Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns; and Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Slonimsky
• Assisted by: Electra Slonimsky Yourke (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781438491646
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9164-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Excelsior Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Business Aspects, Music Industry, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music, Nicolas Slonimsky; musicians biography