Crisis Music: The Life-And-Times of Six Twentieth-Century Composers

by John Caps

Story-like chapters profile six twentieth-century reactive composers; not the most famous pillars of the period but lesser-known, perhaps more approachable, characters whose stories span that 1900-2000 period from decadent fin-de-si cle Vienna (Alban Berg, Alexander Zemlinsky) to war-torn Paris (Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger) to the Cold War tensions of East vs. West (Tōru Takemitsu) and late-century Communism (Arvo P rt). Their stories were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789761468
• ISBN13: 9781789761467
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"