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Beschreibung

Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.

The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the 'New Yorker', explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Björk, pre-First World War Vienna to 'Nixon in China'.

Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change.

This edition includes a definitive list of the greatest recordings of twentieth-century music.

Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.

The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the 'New Yorker', explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Björk, pre-First World War Vienna to 'Nixon in China'.

Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change.

This edition includes a definitive list of the greatest recordings of twentieth-century music.

Über den Autor

Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the
New York Times
from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at the
New Yorker
. His first book
The Rest is Noise
is about the cultural history of music since 1990, which won the Guardian First Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of
Listen to This
. He lives in Los Angeles.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XVIII
695 S.
ISBN-13: 9781841154763
ISBN-10: 1841154768
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ross, Alex
Hersteller: HarperCollins Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 233 x 151 x 55 mm
Von/Mit: Alex Ross
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2009
Gewicht: 0,823 kg
Artikel-ID: 101790480

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