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Debussy: A Painter In Sound by Stephen Walsh
Category: Art and Design
Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the r ...Show more
Debussy - A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh
Category: Music
Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the r ...Show more
Debussy - A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh
Category: Music
Debussy's life is of extraordinary interest because, like Wagner and Stravinsky, he crossed artistic boundaries, associating as much with poets and artists as with musicians. His father was active in the 1871 Paris Commune and the composer's childhood was thus unsettled, his musical preparation erratic, ...Show more
Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure by Stephen Walsh
Category: Performing Arts
The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all musical history. Stephen W ...Show more
Stravinsky : The Second Exile - France And America 1934-1971 by Stephen Walsh
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. This work follows Stravinsky through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. It also shows his increasing ...Show more
Stravinsky : The Second Exile - France and America 1934-1971 by STEPHEN WALSH
Category: Biography Memoir
The Beloved Vision - A History of Nineteenth Century Music by Stephen Walsh
Category: Music
**A New Yorker "Best Book of the Year"**A rich and luminous biography of nineteenth century music.When one thinks of "great" classical music--music with the most emotional resonance and timelessness--we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition. We recall the sweet melody of a Sch ...Show more
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age by Stephen Walsh
Category: Music
Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - points out in this intensely absorbing study, there ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (1) - Nationalist Forces by Alejandro de Quesada; Stephen Walsh (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash of 20th-century ideologies, between the rebel Nationalist army led by General Franco (right-wing, and aided by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy), and the Rep ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (2) - Republican Forces by Alejandro de Quesada; Stephen Walsh (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
This book offers an extensive overview of the myriad Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. The conflict was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. The study illustrates, textually and visually, how the Republican forces were initially varie ...Show more
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