Musical Lives by Sir Nicholas Kenyon Cbe

Musical Lives by Sir Nicholas Kenyon Cbe

Who were the singers, musicians, composers, instrumentalists, and conductors who made the music of the 20th century? What inspired Benjamin Britten to compose Peter Grimes? How did music save Malcolm Sargent when he lost his daughter to polio? What is the link between Vaughan Williams and Charles Darwin? What did Edward Elgar do for classical music in Britain? Could any of the members of the Beatles actually read or write music when they first came together? Nicholas Kenyon, with a long-standing career in music and a wealth of knowledge and experience, has carefully selected around 100 entries from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to go in this anthology.

Brian Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Modern British History at Oxford, has published widely in British social, political and cultural history since the 1790s. His first book, Drink and the Victorians (1971, second edition 1994), was followed by books on British reforming movements, feminism, and anti-feminism, Oxford University's history, and - in The Transformation of British Politics 1860-1995 (1996) - on how our political institutions have evolved. After editing the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from 2000 to 2004, Harrison was knighted in 2005 for 'services to scholarship'.

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ISBN 13	9780198605287
ISBN 10	0198605285
Title	Musical Lives
Author	Sir Nicholas Kenyon Cbe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2003-02-01
Number of pages	334
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