Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
$49.64
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
15 December 1995
Summary
Make a Sound Investment in Classical Music
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” cause a riot? Which five of each important composer’s works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe you don’t know the answers to these questions; author Phil Goulding certainly didn’t. When Goulding first tried to learn about classical music, he found himself buried in an av…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780449910429 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0449910423 |
| Author: | Phil G. Goulding |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 1995 |
| Weight: | 629g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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Phil G. Goulding
Phil G. Goulding was born in San Francisco in 1921, grew up in Cleveland, attended Hamilton College in upstate New York, and spent World War II in the Navy. He has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1950 as a newspaper reporter, an assistant secretary of defense, and a petroleum industry executive. He wrote Confirm or Deny, a book about the Pentagon, the press, and the public. With his wife, Miriam, he now divides his time between Washington and a Chateaugay Lake cabin in the Adirondacks.
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