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The new book of modern composers

Author:David Ewen

Summary:Included: Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Ernest Bloch, Benjamin Britten, Mario Castalnluovo-Todesco, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Frederick Delius, Sir Edward Elgar, Manuel De Falla, Georgae Gershwin, Roy Harris, Ppaul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinu, Gian Carlo Menotti, Darius Milhaud, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Francis Poulenc, Serge Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, William Schuman, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinski, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Sir William Walton

Print Book, English, 1961

Edition:3d ed., rev. and enl View all formats and editions

Publisher: Knopf, New York, 1961

Genre:collective biographies

Physical Description:491 pages 25 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:599747

Subjects:

Composers Biography

Compositeurs Biographies

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Music 20th century

Music 20th century History and criticism

Musique 20e siècle

collective biographies

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

New book of modern composers.

Ewen, David, 1907-1985.

Contents:

Samuel Barber

Bela Bartok

Alban Berg

Ernest Bloch

Benjamin Britten

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Carlos Chavez

Aaron Copland

Frederick Delius

Sir Edward Elgar

Manuel De Falla

George Gershwin

Roy Harris

Paul Hindemith

Arthur Honegger

Bohuslav Martinu

Gian Carlo Menotti

Darius Milhaud

Ildebrando Pizzetti

Francis Poulenc

Serge Prokofiev

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Maurice Ravel

Arnold Schoenberg

William Schuman

Dmitri Shostakovich

Jean Sibelius

Richard Strauss

Igor Stravinsky

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Sir William Walton

Notes:

Previously published under the title The book of modern composers