Professor Stephen Walsh

Broschiertes Buch

Debussy

A Painter in Sound

Beschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY AWARD FOR STORYTELLINGClaude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers.

Autor

Stephen Walsh is a leading English writer and broadcaster on classical music, the author of several books on Igor Stravinsky including a major two-volume biography, a large-scale study of the Russian nationalist group of composers known as the kuchka or Mighty Handful, and most recently a highly praised biography of Claude Debussy. He was for many years deputy music critic of the Observer newspaper, and also a regular critic for The Times, Financial Times and, more recently, The Independent. He now reviews for a leading arts website, theartsdesk.com. From 1976 to 2013 he was a lecturer, then professor on the music faculty at Cardiff University, and is now an Emeritus Professor of that university. He lives in Herefordshire with his wife, two dogs, two horses, seven sheep and too many squirrels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780571330171
• ISBN-10: 0571330177
• Artikelnr.: 53604133