F.M.: The Life Of Frederick Matthias Alexander
Founder of the Alexander Technique
$58.50
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 July 2004
Summary
The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an Australian actor who stumbled upon it in the 1890s after studying himself in mirrors to discover why he had lost his voice. He realised that most people suffered from the same postural defects he had noticed in himself, and that this explained much …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316860482 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0316860484 |
| Author: | Michael Bloch |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 217mm x 24mm |
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Michael Bloch has done the world a great service by writing this life of a man who deserves to be more widely acknowledged and celebrated.– COUNTRY LIFE
Michael Bloch has done the world a great service by writing this life of a man who deserves to be more widely acknowledged and celebrated. - COUNTRY LIFE
Bloch presents the facts in poised, gentlemanly prose, noting foibles without moralising, and dryly alive to amusing details. - TLSAbout The Author
Michael Bloch
Michael Bloch was born in 1953 and trained for the law. From 1979 he assisted Ma tre Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. He is the author of several books on the Windsors as well as other acclaimed works of non-fiction.
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