Ravel - Rilegato

Nichols, Roger

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300108826 ISBN 13: 9780300108828

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composer’s friends and associates. As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer’s background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel—including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Fauré, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini—is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait.

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L'autore:

Roger Nichols read Music at Worcester College, Oxford, with Edmund Rubbra and Frederick Sternfeld, and has written and contributed to over twenty books on music. He was decorated as Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 2006 for his forty years of service to French music, as a biographer, historian, editor, broadcaster, pianist and lecturer.

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Book by Nichols Roger

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0300108826
• ISBN 13: 9780300108828
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 430