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Rachmaninoff / Michael Scott.
- Title
- Rachmaninoff / Michael Scott.
- Author
- Scott, Michael
- Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire [England] : History Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML410.R12 S336 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 224 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last great romantic. Scorned by the musical establishment until very recently, his music received hostile reviews from critics and other composers. Conversely, it never failed to find widespread popular acclaim. Michael Scott's book investigates Rachmaninoff's intense and often melodramatic life, following him from imperial Russia to his years of exile as a wandering virtuoso and his death in Beverley Hills during the Second World War, worn out by his punishing schedule. In the first biography for nearly fifty years to relate the man to his music, Michael Scott tells the colourful story of a life that spanned two centuries and two continents. His original research from the Russian archives, so long closed to writers from the west, brings us closer to the spirit of a man who genuinely believed that music could be both good and popuar, a blief that is now triumphantly vindicated.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1873-1885 -- 1885-1889 -- 1889-1893 -- 1892-1897 -- 1897-1902 -- 1902-1906 -- 1906-1909 -- 1909-1911 -- 1912-1914 -- 1914-1917 -- 1917-1920 -- 1920-1924 -- 1924-1927 -- 1927-1930 -- 1930-1932 -- 1932-1936 -- 1937-1939 -- 1939-1943.
- ISBN
- 9780750943765 (hbk.)
- 0750943769 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009535715
- OCLC
- 248687286
- SCSB-10009219
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library