Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.
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The marriage between Rachmaninoff's parents in the late 1860s appeared happily to bring together two families with long and distinguished Russian traditions and with comfortable financial assets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Concerto, First Concerto, New York, Philharmonic Society, The Miserly Knight, Fourth Concerto, Monna Vanna, First Symphony, Second Symphony, Symphonic Dances, The Musical Quarterly, Third Concerto, The Rock, Natalya Skalon, Modest Tchaikovsky, All-night Vigil, Francesca da Rimini, Mikhail Slonov, The Isle, Bolshoy Theatre, Russian Musical Society, Sofiya Satina, The Musical Times, Corelli Variations, Moscow Conservatory New!
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The marriage between Rachmaninoff's parents in the late 1860s appeared happily to bring together two families with long and distinguished Russian traditions and with comfortable financial assets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Concerto, First Concerto, New York, Philharmonic Society, The Miserly Knight, Fourth Concerto, Monna Vanna, First Symphony, Second Symphony, Symphonic Dances, The Musical Quarterly, Third Concerto, The Rock, Natalya Skalon, Modest Tchaikovsky, All-night Vigil, Francesca da Rimini, Mikhail Slonov, The Isle, Bolshoy Theatre, Russian Musical Society, Sofiya Satina, The Musical Times, Corelli Variations, Moscow Conservatory New!
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- Monna Vanna: A Play in Three Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck on page 39, page 144, and Back Matter
- Eugene Onegin: English National Opera Guide 38 (English National Opera Guides) by Tchaikovsky on page 17, page 29, and page 136
- Uncle Vanya by David Mamet on page 150, and Back Matter
- Uncle Vanya (Oxford Paperbacks) by A.P. Chekhov on page 150, and Back Matter
- My Life Of Music (Music Book Index) by Henry Joseph Wood on page 48, and page 71
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