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Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works

Eric Walter White
Biography / works catalogue and study · 1966 · English
Eric Walter White. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works. London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

This biography or documentary study follows Igor Stravinsky through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…

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A Portrait of Mendelssohn

Clive Brown
Scholarly biography / reception study · 2003 · English
Clive Brown. A Portrait of Mendelssohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780300095395.

Brown’s biography reassesses Mendelssohn against a long history of condescension that portrayed him as merely polished, privileged or conservative. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, reviews and contemporary reports, the book reconstructs the composer as pianist, conductor, organizer, teacher, family member and public intellectual as well as composer. It…

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