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The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. <BR><BR>'Fabulous.' Sunday Times 'A rare gift.' Financial Times 'Passionate ... Vivid ... Timely.' Telegraph 'Readable and inspiring.' Guardian 'Compelling ... Ambitious ... Poignant.' Spectator 'Magnificent.' Kate Mosse 'Riveting.' Antonia Fraser 'A breath of fresh air.' Kate Molleson 'Fascinating.' Alexandra Harris 'Wonderful.' Claire Tomalin 'Splendid.' Miranda Seymour 'Remarkable.' Fiona Maddocks 'Pioneering.' Andrew Motion 'Brilliant' Helen Pankhurst <BR>Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette.<BR><BR>Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation.<BR><BR>Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the 'English Strauss' never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar's grave alone.<BR><BR>Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain's first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II's coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor. In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century's most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today, they are ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten - until now. Leah Broad's magnificent group biography resurrects these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars, Quartet revolutionises the canon forever.

The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas Slonimsky. A boy prodigy as a pianist, Slonimsky fled pre-Communist Russia, reaching Paris at the height of another revolution-one in music and the arts. His early association with conductor Serge Koussevitzky brought him into contact with many of the era's greatest talents, including Igor Stravinsky and Serge Prokofiev. Emigrating to Boston in 1925, he embarked on a writing career, authoring key works still in print decades after their first publication, including Music Since 1900, a chronological history; Lexicon of Musical Invective, which proved definitively that new works are rarely understood in their time; and Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, which inspired generations of composers and performers, including jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Known for his sharp wit, Slonimsky appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and was befriended by Frank Zappa. Perfect Pitch captures a life that was rich with discovery and invention and spanned a century of revolutions and explorations. This new edition is enhanced with several previously unpublished photographs, an extensive oral history, and several original essays, some reprinted for the first time.

Questo è il racconto della vita di una diva, di una straordinaria interprete del teatro ottocentesco. Una storia vera, appassionante però come un romanzo. Maria Malibran (1808-1836), voce prodigiosa, celebrata dalle maggiori personalità del tempo, fu una donna audace e impegnata, dal carattere controverso e volitivo che non le impedì di essere anche un esempio di generosa umanità. Un'infanzia sofferta, un matrimonio sciagurato, una parabola gloriosa culminata con una morte tragica e prematura dai contorni poco chiari. La Malibran ha consumato la sua breve esistenza raccogliendo una fama senza precedenti, incantando le platee, suscitando manifestazioni di fanatismo che, per la prima volta nella storia della musica, raggiunsero forme di isteria collettiva simili a quelle delle moderne popstar. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Why is Ludwig van Beethoven considered by many to be history's greatest composer? Noted Beethoven scholar Professor Ludwig Nohl reveals the answer in this special Sea Raven Press reprint of his classic Victorian biography, Life of Beethoven.In this brief but dense five-chapter volume, Nohl chronicles Beethoven's life story from birth to death, covering important details concerning both his personal life as a financially struggling bachelor and his professional life as a beloved composer and popular live performer. The emphasis, however, is on Beethoven's art, and to this end Nohl includes copious song lists with in-depth discussions of his musical works.Though Nohl's original 1881 edition was not illustrated, the 21st-Century editor, award-winning historian, author, and composer Lochlainn Seabrook, has corrected this oversight by adding nearly 50 newly captioned images and photos to the text. Along with this wonderful addition, Mr. Seabrook designed a new cover and reformatted the entire work in an attractive layout with easy-to-read fonts. Other Seabrook additions include an editor's introduction, dedication, and epigraph.As with all our reprints, not one word has been added to or subtracted from the original text, making this illustrated Sea Raven Press edition of Nohl's "Life of Beethoven" the only one of its kind. Available in paperback and hardcover.

La storia e il mito di Maria Callas: un¿icona del nostro tempo, raccontata ed evocata in una graphic novel frutto di un accuratissimo lavoro di ricerca. Attraverso le immagini e le parole di Vanna Vinci, la Callas diventa un personaggio da tragedia greca (di cui questo libro rielabora lo schema, utilizzando addirittura il coro) e, allo stesso tempo, una superstar. Un¿opera da cui emerge una riflessione sulla forza dell¿arte come riscatto personale e sul talento come benedizione e condanna.

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«Toscanini non amava il divismo, ma suo malgrado finì per diventare un divo lui stesso. Perfino le sue stranezze e il terribile carattere contribuirono a suscitare nel pubblico eccezionali attese.» In queste pagine, Melograni racconta le tappe cruciali della lunga carriera artistica e dell'intensa vita privata di Arturo Toscanini, da molti considerato il più grande ed eccentrico direttore d'orchestra del Novecento. Sullo sfondo di un'epoca segnata da grandiosi cambiamenti e da tragedie immani, emerge un ritratto a tutto tondo dell'uomo e dell'artista, con la sua eccezionale sensibilità musicale, il suo carattere impossibile, il suo perfezionismo esasperato, e con quel carisma straordinario che ne fece un protagonista assoluto del suo tempo.

Set against the vivid background of 1920s Sydney, A Distant Prospect is an intimate, hilarious and ultimately deeply moving coming-of-age adventure told with a touch of poetry by a quintessentially Irish narrator.

A selection of Mozart's letters translated into English complete with notes linking commentary and chronology.