Bax : a composer and his times / Lewis Foreman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foreman, Lewis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bax, Arnold, 1883-1953.

Bax, Arnold.

Composers--Great Britain--Biography.

Composers.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 569 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2007.

Contents:

I 1883-1900 The Background 1

II 1900-1905 The Royal Academy of Music 10

III 1905-1909 Many Influences 41

IV 1909-1910 Ireland and Russia 67

V 1910-1911 Marriage 80

VI 1912-1914 Rathgar and London 103

VII 1914-1916 The Great War 131

VIII 1916-1918 Harriet Cohen 152

IX 1918-1920 Peace and Success 176

X 1921-1923 Triumph 194

XI 1924-1925 Crisis 222

XII 1926-1928 New Directions 243

XIII 1928-1929 Dreams and Reality 265

XIV 1930-1932 Going Northern 297

XV 1933-1936 Past Fifty 324

XVI 1937-1939 'I can't grow up' 340

XVII 1939-1945 The Second World War: Storrington 355

XVIII 1945-1953 Last Years 375

XIX After 1953 Decline and Revival 401

Appendix A Dermot O'Byrne 419

Appendix B Bax's Scenario of King Kojata 425

Appendix C The Happy Forest / Herbert Farjeon 428

Appendix D Bax's Symphonies at the Proms 430

Catalogue of Bax's Writings 456

Catalogue of Bax's Works 465.

Notes:

Previous ed.: Aldershot: Scolar, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [528]-537) and index.

Includes discography.

ISBN:

1843832097

9781843832096

OCLC:

71239433