From C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Romantic Sturm und Drang to Chopin, Berlioz and Wagner. Walsh’s recent book on Debussy was excellent.
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978057135695906/10/2022
Categories: 15. Books for Christmas 2022: Performing Arts, Books for Christmas 2022, Music
Tags: Austria, Germany
From a Bookshelf nearby
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Half a century before Owen Jones's 'Grammar of Ornament' (1856), Freiherr zu Racknitz produced this survey of twenty-four different styles, some historical, some contemporary, the predictabl... read more
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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more
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Marvellously researched account of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first (and short-lived) democracy.
November 1918: The German Revolution
Hardback £20.00