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The Devil Prefers Mozart
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The Devil Prefers Mozart

On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993
BookPaperback
Ranking899inMusik
CHF46.90

Description

Anthony Burgess's brilliance as an essayist and his passion for music are united in The Devil Prefers Mozart, the largest collection of his music essays ever assembled.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-80017-308-8
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date25/01/2024
Pages578 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 217 mm, Height 135 mm, Thickness 44 mm
Weight622 g
Article no.50542973
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.45223076
Product groupMusik
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Author

Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University. He is the author of A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, published in 2010, and essays on Burgess published in six other books, including the Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange. He has led performances of many Burgess compositions in concert, including numerous premieres, and conducted the first commercial recording of Burgess's orchestral music, released by Naxos in 2016. Anthony Burgess (1917- 1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. Best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, he wrote more than sixty books of fiction, non-fiction and autobiography, as well as classical music, plays, film scripts, essays and articles. Burgess was born in Manchester, England and grew up in Harpurhey and Moss Side. He was educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He lived in Malaya, Malta, Monaco, Italy and the United States, and his books are still widely read all over the world.