20th-century Composers

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Phaidon Press, Sep 25, 1996 - Music - 240 pages
In this masterly biography, the author creates a portrait of a great artist and discusses the contradictions of his quintessential Englishness and his world stature, his outsider status and his membership of the establishment, his artistic adventurousness and his constant regard for musical forms and traditions.

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MUSI
6
Chapter 2
29
Chapter 3
45
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About the author (1996)

Michael Oliver is well known as a writer and broadcaster, having written and compiled numerous programmes for BBC Radio 3 and written regularly for Gramophone and other magazines for over 20 years. He is also the author of Igor Stravinsky in the 20th-Century Composers series.

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