Alexander Goehr, Composing a Life: Teachers, Mentors, and Models

by Jack Van Zandt and Alexander Goehr

Alexander ('Sandy') Goehr is a leading British composer and teacher. Born into a Jewish musical family in Berlin in 1932, he arrived in England in 1933 with his father, Walter, a composer, conductor, and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg; and his mother Laelia, a trained pianist from Kyiv. Raised in Amersham, he attended Richard Hall's classes at the Royal Manchester College of Music. There he formed the 'Manchester School' - a group of young composers and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800173571
• ISBN13: 9781800173576
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Lives and Letters
• Length: 256 Pages