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The saddest music ever written : the story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings / Thomas Larson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B23 L37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Thomas, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
- Barber, Samuel.
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Quartets--violins (2), viola, cello--no. 1, op. 11--B minor. Adagio;--arranged.
- Composers--United States--Criticism and interpretation.
- Composers.
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Piano music.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Piano music.
- Physical Description:
- x, 262 pages : Pegasus Books ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings
- Place of Publication:
- 1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2010.
- Summary:
- When Barber was 28, his Adagio for Strings was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Toscanini in 1938.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).
- ISBN:
- 160598115X
- 9781605981154
- OCLC:
- 656846602
- Publisher Number:
- 99939594667
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