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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Martyn, Barrie. Nicolas Medtner. Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., 1995 (OCoLC)639533288 |
Named Person: | Nikolay Karlovich Medtner; Nikolay Karlovich Medtner; Nikolay Karlovič Medtner; Nikolay Karlovič Medtner; Nikolay Karlovich Medtner; Nikolaj Karlovič Metner; Nikolaj K Metner |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barrie Martyn |
ISBN: | 0859679594 9780859679596 |
OCLC Number: | 32167236 |
Description: | viii, 274 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates, music, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1880-1900: Childhood and conservatoire -- 1900-1903: Start of a career -- 1903-1906: Personal turmoil -- 1906-1909: German sojourn -- 1909-1911: Conservatoire professor -- 1911-1914: Friends and critics -- 1914-1917: War -- 1917-1921: Revolution -- 1921-1925: A life abroad -- 1925-1927: A return to Russia -- 1927-1930: Britain and America -- 1930-1935: The Muse and the Fashion -- 1935-1939: Move to England -- 1939-1945: Second world war -- 1945-1951: Indian fairy tale. |
Responsibility: | Barrie Martyn. |
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Martyn's sympathetic and interesting biography; with its excellent descriptions of Medtner's music, is well worth exploring. Robin Zebaida, Classical Music All enthusiasts will want a copy and all libraries should have one. Musical Times Martyn always has some useful insights to offer; above all, because he is devoted to Medtner s music, knows it intimately and can write about it with an enthusiasm that is both infectious and sensitive, his attractively written book should help foster a climate favourable to the production of a truly definitive study of Medtner. Meanwhile, for the foreseeable future it will do its subject s cause excellent service. Music and Letters '... a comprehensive monograph that helps to restore Medtner's name to the pages of music history.' Clavier Magazine Read more...


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