One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down
in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and
some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every
concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his
notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical
composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution.
Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such
subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical
snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under
the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical
construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic
of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first
presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.
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