0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music

Buy Now

Nicolas Medtner - His Life and Music (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,825
Discovery Miles 18 250
Nicolas Medtner - His Life and Music (Paperback): Barrie Martyn

Nicolas Medtner - His Life and Music (Paperback)

Barrie Martyn

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,825 Discovery Miles 18 250 | Repayment Terms: R171 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend Rachmaninoff considered him the greatest of contemporary composers. He wrote three fine piano concertos, more than one hundred solo piano compositions, including a cycle of fourteen sonatas fully worthy to be set alongside those of Scriabin and Prokofiev, and many beautiful songs. He was also a great pianist. Leaving Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, Medtner lived for a time in Germany and France before finally settling in London, where he passed the final sixteen years of his life. The present work is the first to tell the full story of his eventful life and to consider in turn each of his compositions. The author has drawn on Medtner's own correspondence and writings and collected the reminiscences of those who knew him personally to build a comprehensive picture of a great, if still largely unrecognised, musician.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2016
First published: 1995
Authors: Barrie Martyn
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-24895-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Promotions
LSN: 1-138-24895-9
Barcode: 9781138248953

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Occasional Pieces - Writings and…
Christian Wolff Hardcover R3,799 Discovery Miles 37 990
Resonances of the Raj - India in the…
Nalini Ghuman Hardcover R1,923 Discovery Miles 19 230
Schoenberg's Early Correspondence
Ethan Haimo, Sabine Feisst Hardcover R4,001 Discovery Miles 40 010
Pat Metheny - The ECM Years, 1975-1984
Mervyn Cooke Hardcover R2,632 Discovery Miles 26 320
Rethinking Britten
Philip Rupprecht Hardcover R4,084 Discovery Miles 40 840
The Russian Violin School - The Legacy…
Masha Lankovsky Hardcover R3,983 Discovery Miles 39 830
Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to…
Lynn M. Hooker Hardcover R2,365 Discovery Miles 23 650
Composing for the Red Screen - Prokofiev…
Kevin Bartig Hardcover R2,087 Discovery Miles 20 870
Rethinking Debussy
Elliott Antokoletz, Marianne Wheeldon Hardcover R2,033 Discovery Miles 20 330
Performing Pain - Music and Trauma in…
Maria Cizmic Hardcover R2,897 Discovery Miles 28 970
Berg's Wozzeck
Patricia Hall Hardcover R3,472 Discovery Miles 34 720
Off Key - When Film and Music Won't Work…
Kay Dickinson Hardcover R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800

See more

Partners