ISBN: 9780809317905 - recollections of r.j.s. stevens: an organist in georgian london (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 314 Pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First American edition. 1st American ed., 8vo, green cloth boards, 314 pages, b/w illustrations, map endpapers, bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: very slight rubbing to bottom edge; appears unread. Stevens (1757-1837), organist and composer, spanned the late Baroque and early Romanticism eras. He kept copious diaries throughout his life, forming the basis for his 'Recollections,' written in 1827. …

Condizione: BUONO. London and Basingstoke, Southern Illinois University Press cm.14,5x23, pp.XIX,314, legatura ed.sopracop.fig. The career of R DJ S Stevens (17571827) lasted from the late baroque to early romanticism. Trained as a choirboy, he was apprenticed at the age of eleven to William Savage, who undertook to instruct him in the Science of Musick. After leaving Savage, Stevens pursued, somewhat unsuccessfully at first, a career as an organist. In 1782 his luck changed when he was elected an organist to St. Michael's, Cornhill. He spent the rest of his life earning his living as a composer, organist, and music teacher whose pupils included the illegitimate daughters of Lord Thurlow, the Lord Chancellor. Among Stevens's works is The Anacreontic Song, which serves as the melody for The Star Spangled Banner. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. No markings or inscriptions; looks unread.