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Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music
Diana McVeagh
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Description for Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music
Paperback. Critically acclaimed biography of one of England's best loved composers, with a full discussion and evaluation of his works. Num Pages: 334 pages, 26, 25 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings, 25 black and white, 1. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Critically acclaimed biography of one of England's best loved composers, with a full discussion and evaluation of his works. Gerald Finzi is one of the best-known modern English composers. While he is especially famous as a song-writer, for his sensitive settings of poets such as Hardy and Wordsworth, he also wrote in other genres; notable works includethe exquisite cantata Dies Natalis, and his cello concerto. He also exerted a major influence in the musical world as a whole, championing the neglected Ivor Gurney and reviving eighteenth-century composers with the amateur orchestra he founded. In this lively and sensitive ... Read more
Critically acclaimed biography of one of England's best loved composers, with a full discussion and evaluation of his works. Gerald Finzi is one of the best-known modern English composers. While he is especially famous as a song-writer, for his sensitive settings of poets such as Hardy and Wordsworth, he also wrote in other genres; notable works includethe exquisite cantata Dies Natalis, and his cello concerto. He also exerted a major influence in the musical world as a whole, championing the neglected Ivor Gurney and reviving eighteenth-century composers with the amateur orchestra he founded. In this lively and sensitive ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
523g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843836025
SKU
V9781843836025
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99-50
About Diana McVeagh
DIANA MCVEAGH is a Vice-President of the Elgar Society. Her interests range from Josquin to Birtwistle, but she writes mostly about English Romantics. She is the author of Elgar: His Life and Music (Dent, 1955), and the highly acclaimed Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (Boydell, 2005 and 2010), and Elgar: The Music Maker (Boydell, 2007). She has contributed to ... Read more
Reviews for Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music
[T]he author's style is very easy indeed, informal and communicative.
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY JOURNAL
The book is very well researched and immensely informative. [...] From reading this particular biography, there is also the wish to read more by Diana McVeagh.
THE ELGAR SOCIETY JOURNAL
McVeagh's analyses unfailingly draw the reader's attention to the melodic and ... Read more
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY JOURNAL
The book is very well researched and immensely informative. [...] From reading this particular biography, there is also the wish to read more by Diana McVeagh.
THE ELGAR SOCIETY JOURNAL
McVeagh's analyses unfailingly draw the reader's attention to the melodic and ... Read more