Percy Grainger

TRAMA

This extensively revised edition of John Bird's acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive and wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous `Blue-Eyed English'. A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work. In their Prefatory Note to the first edition, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears wrote: `In his sympathetic and tactful biography John Bird has beautifully balanced the brilliance with the turbulence of this unbalanced genius--we are grateful to him'.

SOMMARIO

1 - `Bubbles'2 - Doctors and Dustbin Lids3 - `Perks' joins the Frankfurt Gang4 - Saint and Sinner5 - Grettir the Strong Flexes his Muscles6 - `The years before the war were Hell'7 - The Twisted Genius and the Dinkum Aussie8 - Packed Houses and Zulu Warriors9 - `I am an Australian, not a Corsican'10 - Unto Brigg Fair11 - The Little Half-Viking12 - `Poor put-upon Percy'13 - `Adieu Old World! I would hail a New World'14 - `Your mad side has ruined us'15 - Beatless Music, Blue-Eyed English, and a Nordic Princess16 - `The measure of my artistic defeat'17 - `I shall go back to the joys of my teen-years'18 - `Your loving but defeated, Percy'

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198166528
• Dimensioni: 242 x 27.0 x 162 mm Ø 749 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 16 pp black and white plates, figures
• Pagine Arabe: 404