Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)
Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958
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Detaljer
- Typ av produkt
- Bok (inbunden)
- Författare / Kompositör
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Utgivare
- Hugh Cobbe
- Produktnummer
- 769531
- Språk
- engelska
- Utgivningsår
- 2008
Beskrivning
The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words. In general the letters reflect VW's major preoccupations: musical, personal and political.
It was not VW's way to discuss his inner creative processes but he does discuss his music, once it had been written: for example there...
Innehåll
- Foreword, Michael Kennedy
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1:Earliest letters (c.1895) down to the outbreak of the First World War: 1895 - 1914
- 2:From the beginning of the First World War until the move to Dorking: 1914 - 1929
- 3:From the move to Dorking until the outbreak of the Second World War: 1929 - September 1939
- 4:The Second World War: September 1939 - May 1945
- 5:From the Second World War to the move back to London: June 1945 - 15 September 1953
- 6:Fro...
