Bax : a composer and his times
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Bax : a composer and his times
Boydell Press, 2007
3rd rev. & expanded ed
Available at 3 libraries
Note
"First published 1983, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. New edition 1987, Scholar Press, Aldershot. Revised edition published 2007, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge"--T.p. verso
"Catalogue of Bax's writings": p. [456]-464
"Catalogue of Bax's works": p. [465]-506
"Discography compiled by Graham Parlett": p. [507]-527
Includes bibliographical references (p.[528]-537) and index compiled by Susan Foreman
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Completely revised and updated from recently discovered archive material, Lewis Foreman's classic biography is the essential handbook to Bax and his contemporaries.
Lewis Foreman's classic biography of the composer Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was first published in 1983. Documenting the life and times of a remarkable figure whose life touched a wide circle in England and Ireland, it was notable for having many of Bax's friends and contemporaries as sources, most of whom have since died. It also informed the remarkable revival of Bax's music and reputation which has taken place over the last twenty years.
Now completely revised in the light of much new material including the huge archive of the pianist Harriet Cohen, Bax's mistress, which has only just become available for research, it is a notable portrait of a unique musical milieu. Bax's extensive musical output is now comprehensively recorded and widely known and here all the music is discussed from first hand acquaintance with all the revivals and recordings. This is the essential handbook to Bax and his period.
LEWIS FOREMAN is a freelance author and advisor to record companies.
Table of Contents
1883-1900: The Backround
1900-1905: The Royal Academy of Music
1905-1909: Many Influences
1909-1910: Ireland and Russia
1910-1911: Marriage
1912-1914: Rathgar and London
1914-1916: The Great War
1916-1918: Harriet Cohen
1918-1920: Peace and Success
1921-1923: Triumph
1924-1925: Crisis
1926-1928: New Directions
1928-1929: Dreams and Reality
1930-1932: Going Northern
1933-1936: Past Fifty
1937-1939: `I can't grow up'
1939-1945: The Second World War: Storrington
1945-1953: Last Years
After 1953: Decline and Revival
Appendix A: Dermot O'Byrne
Appendix B: King Kojata
Appendix C: The Happy Forest by Herbert Farjeon
Appendix D: Bax's Symphonies at the Proms
Appendix E: Felix Aprahamian's Foreward to the First Edition [1982]
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