{"product_id":"richard-strauss-book-michael-kennedy-9780460031486","title":"Richard Strauss","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eMaster Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.\u003cbr\u003e Extensively revised, this well-received account of Richard Strauss's life and music enters its second edition. The life was rich in controversy, from the  outrage' caused by operas \u003cem\u003eSalome\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eElektra\u003c\/em\u003e to the years under the Nazi regime. In his survey of the music, rejecting the generally accepted view that Strauss's genius declined in his middle years, Michael Kennedy traces refinements of style from the early 1920s to Strauss's late works.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528796283153,"sku":"GOR006835198","price":13.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655249305873,"sku":"GOR002198740","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0460031481.jpg?v=1762338906","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/richard-strauss-book-michael-kennedy-9780460031486","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}