Ravel - Couverture rigide

Nichols, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300108826 ISBN 13 : 9780300108828

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Nichols Roger

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This new biography of Maurice Ravel (18751937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composers friends and associates. As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composers background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel - including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Fauré, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini - is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait. Roger Nichols read Music at Worcester College, Oxford, with Edmund Rubbra and Frederick Sternfeld. He taught both Music and Classics in various schools and universities, before becoming a freelance writer, broadcaster and pianist in 1981. He was decorated as Chevalier de la Légion dhonneur in 2006 for his 40 years of service to French music.

Biographie de l'auteur

Roger Nichols has written and contributed to over twenty books on music and has edited the bulk of Ravel's piano music for Peters Edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0300108826
• ISBN 13: 9780300108828
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352