Cambridge University Press, Date: 2006. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2006. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521027748 9780521027748 [US]

UK: Cambridge University Press, Date: 2006. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. crease to top back corner.. 2006. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521027748 9780521027748 [GB]

ISBN10: 0521027748, ISBN13: 9780521027748, [publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr] Softcover reissue edition. 451 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]

Paperback / softback. New. Written by Michael Kennedy, music critic for the Sunday Telegraph, this first detailed biography of Richard Strauss for many years reassesses the man and the musician, drawing on much hitherto ignored material. In particular it considers Strauss's position during the period of the Third Reich. ISBN 0521027748 9780521027748 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0521027748, ISBN13: 9780521027748, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Was Richard Strauss the most incandescent composer of the twentieth century or merely a bourgeoisie artist and Nazi sympathizer For the fifty years since his death on September 8, 1949, Richard Strauss has remained dogmatically elusive in the wider body of musical and historical criticism. Lauded as nothing less than the 'greatest musical figure' of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. As recently as 1995, the English critic Rodney Milnes wrote, 'the court of posterity is still reserving judgment.' In Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, biographer Michael Kennedy demonstrates that the many varying shades of criticism that have painted this figure in the past half century resemble the similar understandings and misunderstandings held by his contemporaries--perceptions that touched almost every aspect of Strauss' life and career. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle, Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man who resembled a 'prosperous bank manager; ' the arch-fiend of modernism and ...
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