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Shostakovich Dimitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, his reputation has increased since his death in 1975. He is now widely considered to be the last greatest classical symphonist. |
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2006-09-29 978-1-904950-50-9 Hardback World Biography, Music Price: £14.40 |
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Rakhmaninov Sergey Rakhmaninov was born in Novgorod, Russia and studied piano from the age of six under Tchaikovsky. In 1892 he established his own reputation as a composer with the Prelude in C'sharp minor. |
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2004-07-29 978-1-904341-50-5 Paperback World English language only Biography, Music Price: £7.99 |
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Prokofiev Sergey Prokofiev lived a life caught between East and West, old and new. Best known for his opera 'The Love for Three Oranges', the ballet 'Romeo and Juliet' and the musical fairy tale 'Peter and the Wolf'. Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon |
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2003-01-30 978-1-904341-32-1 Paperback World English language only Biography, Music Price: £7.99 |
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BRITTEN Benjamin Britten (1913-76) was the most prolific and celebrated English composer of the mid-20th century. Britten shot to international fame with his operas performed by the English Opera Group in 1947. |
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2003-07-31 978-1-904341-21-5 Paperback World Biography, Music Price: £7.99 |
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MORESCHI Alessandro Moreschi, known during his life as ‘The Angel of Rome’, is remembered as the only castrato singer to have made recordings. Historically he was the last representative of the centuries-old tradition of castrating boy singers in order to preserve their high-pitched voices into adulthood - an act of cruelty which produced some of the greatest singers the world has ever known. Behind the extraordinary sound of Moreschi’s voice lay a strange and lonely life lived in the shadow of the great events and great institutions, a personality glimpsed by inference and allusions. |
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2004-11-02 978-1-904341-77-2 Paperback World Biography, History, Music Price: £7.99 |