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Percy Grainger / John Bird.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.G75 B6 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bird, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961.
- Grainger, Percy.
- Composers--Biography.
- Composers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [Fully revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This extensively revised edition of John Bird's acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist Lay a tragic and chaotic personal life, long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed English".
- Notes:
- Edition from jacket.
- Previous edition published: London : Faber and Faber, 1982.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-302), discographies, and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198166524
- OCLC:
- 38288592
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