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Zusatztext 'This is a lively and enlightening book on how Britain has attracted and even stimulated many of the greatest composers over the past 500 years...The use of telling quotations from diaries! letters and other records not only offer insights to the various distinguished composers! but also gives vivid portraits of the England they visited.' - BBC Music Magazine! December 2005 Informationen zum Autor Peter Gordon Klappentext This book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain over the last three centuries, charting the rise of the celebrity composer, the opening of public halls and growth of music festivals, the rapid influx of composers, and new musical forms. Zusammenfassung This book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain over the last three centuries, charting the rise of the celebrity composer, the opening of public halls and growth of music festivals, the rapid influx of composers, and new musical forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: seeking pastures new, 1 'Brothers in the art or science of music': sixteenth-century visitors, 2 The Restoration: new music, new faces, 3 Handel (1): first among visitors, 4 Handel (2): an Englishman by choice, 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'I am a dyed-in-the-wool Englishman', 6 Haydn in London: 'a constellation of musical excellence', 7 Interlude: the London Pianoforte School, 8 'That's Weber in London!', 9 Felix Mendelssohn: a genius recognized, 10 Berlioz and Wagner: a meeting of minds, 11 Frédéric Chopin: 'my good Scottish ladies', 12 Liszt and the wandering years, 13 Antonin Dvofiák: an English celebrity, 14 'This quite horrible city': Tchaikovsky in London, 15 Richard Strauss: trouble with the censor, 16 Bartók and the BBC, 17 The émigré composers: 'His Majesty's most loyal internees', Epilogue: minstrels of the modern age, Notes, Bibliography, Index
