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11 produkter
Hildegard of Bingen
The Woman of Her Age
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
194 kr
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Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman …
Hildegard of Bingen
The Woman of Her Age
E-bok, 2013
152 kr
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Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman …
Harrison Birtwistle
Wild Tracks - a Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks
Av Fiona Maddocks, Harrison Birtwistle
E-bok, 2014
208 kr
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'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the YearHarrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one of the greatest of living composers, behind …
Music for Life
100 Works to Carry You Through
E-bok, 2016
118 kr
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How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its …
Music for Life
100 Works to Carry You Through
Häftad, 2018
149 kr
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How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its …
Goodbye Russia
Rachmaninoff in Exile
Inbunden, 2023
282 kr
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'Delightful . . . An entertaining and humanising portrait.' LITERARY REVIEW'Elegant and compelling . . . Absorbing and multi-faceted.' GRAMOPHONERachmaninoff left St Petersburg in 1917 in the throes of the Russian Revolution. The story of his years in exile inAmerica and Switzerland has only been …
Goodbye Russia
Rachmaninoff in Exile
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances?Rachmaninoff left Petrograd in the throes of …
Goodbye Russia
Rachmaninoff in Exile
E-bok, 2023
197 kr
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In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances?Rachmaninoff left Petrograd in 1917 in the …
Twentieth-Century Classical Music
A Ladybird Expert Book
E-bok, 2018, 9-12 år
170 kr
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?How did composers respond to politics and war?DISCOVER the stories …
Goodbye Russia
Rachmaninoff in Exile
E-bok, 2024
199 kr
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The moving story of Rachmaninoff''s years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian …
