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Michael Tippett - The Biography (Hardcover)
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Michael Tippett - The Biography (Hardcover)
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'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine
landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the
oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is
among the most visionary of the twentieth century. But little has
been written about his extraordinary life. In this long-awaited
first biography, Oliver Soden weaves a century-spanning narrative
of epic scope and penetrating insight. Soden has discovered troves
of unpublished letters and manuscripts, and recorded moving
interviews with Tippett's friends and colleagues. He paints a
portrait of a powerful intellect and infectious personality:
charming, stubborn, and great fun. But he also uncovers the sorrows
and secrets that Tippett stowed away beneath his cheerfulness, not
least the darker reaches of some tempestuous and often tragic love
affairs. Soden's achievement is to have enriched our understanding
not only of Tippett but of his times. Figures such as T.S. Eliot,
E.M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, and W.H. Auden jostle in the cast
list. An Edwardian world of gaslight and empire cedes to turmoil
and warfare; one startling revelation is the extent of Tippett's
involvement in the fiery left-wing politics of the 1930s. The
narrative roves from the mining villages of the north, blighted by
unemployment, to a cell at Wormwood Scrubs, where Tippett was
imprisoned as a conscientious objector. Later chapters uncover his
operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a
backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race. And singing from the
page comes the music, through which Soden charts an exquisitely
written course, offering lucid readings of Tippett's most famous
works while resuscitating forgotten masterpieces. The result is a
landmark in the study of twentieth-century culture, simultaneously
an astonishing feat of scholarship and a story as enthralling as in
any great novel.
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