Mendelssohn / Edition 3

by Philip Radcliffe, Peter Ward Jones

Overview

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198164937
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/22/2001
Series:	Composers Across Cultures
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

King's College, Cambridge

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"Useful as a reference book...thorough in its musical analyses."—Hi-Fi News

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