Overview
Before he made his mark as a dramatist, Bernard Shaw was London's liveliest and most controversial music critic. During the years that Shaw served in this capacity his mind and his prose achieved a disinterested purity which they were never to know again in such absolute fashion. This volume, selected from Music in London, London Music and other sources, contains tile best of Shaw's musical writing, including sections on Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Berlioz, pieces on opera, musical analysis, oratorios, Gilbert and Sullivan, plus a long autobiographical preface, one of Shaw's most self-revealing works. The result is a book of unparalleled brilliance and grace by a writer who, according to W.H. Auden, "was probably the greatest music critic who ever lived".
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- ISBN-13: 9781557831491
- ISBN-10: 1557831491
- Publisher: Applause Books
- Publish Date: February 2000
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 324
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