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The
Author
LEWIS FOREMAN is a prolific writer on British music,
including books on Havergal Brian, Edmund Rubbra, Arthur
Bliss, and Edward Elgar as well as London: A Musical
Gazetteer (Yale UP) with Susan Foreman.
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Completely revised and
updated with new archival material, this is the definitive
biography of Bax - his life, his times and his
contemporaries. |
Lewis’s Foreman’s classic
biography of the composer Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was first published in
1983. Documenting the life and times of a remarkable figure whose life
touched a wide circle in England and Ireland, it was notable for having
many of Bax’s friends and contemporaries as sources, most of whom have
since died. It also informed the remarkable revival of Bax’s music and
reputation which has taken place over the last twenty years.
Now completely revised in the light of much new material including the
huge archive of the pianist Harriet Cohen, Bax’s mistress, which has
only just become available for research, it is a notable portrait of a
unique musical milieu. Bax’s extensive musical output is now
comprehensively recorded and widely known and here all the music is
discussed from first hand acquaintance with all the revivals and
recordings. This is the essential handbook to Bax and his period.
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25 b/w illustrations
616 pages
Size: 23 x 15 cm
Binding: Hardback
Publication date: 26/Jul/2007
Price: £29.95 / $55.00
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