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Roger Sessions : how a "difficult" composer got that way / Frederik Prausnitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prausnitz, Frederik, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Composers.
- Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985.
- Local Subjects:
- Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually and not very willingly, learned to accept his unexpected lot as a 'difficult' composer.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 The Matriarch; 2 The Consort; 3 Young Roger; 4 Letters from Harvard; 5 Ernest Bloch; 6 Berenson; 7 The Musical Idea I; 8 Summer of 1929; 9 Berlin Interlude; 10 Home; 11 Sea Change; 12 Something More; 13 The Musical Idea II; 14 Teacher; 15 Family, Friends, and Montezuma; 16 Berkeley; 17 Dallapiccola; 18 The Musical Idea III; 19 Harvest; APPENDIX 1 Overview; APPENDIX 2 Musical Terms; APPENDIX 3 Ernest Bloch Notes, 1925; NOTES; SOURCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780197728956
- 0197728952
- 9781280453090
- 1280453095
- 9780195355208
- 0195355202
- 9780195301878
- 0195301870
- 9781602561472
- 1602561478
- OCLC:
- 191038263
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