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Michael Tippett - The Biography (Paperback)
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Michael Tippett - The Biography (Paperback)
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List price R482
Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
You Save R39 (8%)
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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. His achievement is to have
enriched our understanding not only of Tippett but of the twentieth
century. 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 and his
operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a
backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race. 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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