H. Balfour Gardiner

by Stephen Lloyd

Book Overview

This is the first study of the life and music of Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950), a composer of some distinction and a generous patron of British music. But it is necessarily more than the story of just one man: it is an account of many friendships (chiefly musical) during that exciting period of British music's struggle out of mediocrity to prominence. It was Balfour Gardiner who, before the First World War, launched in Queen's Hall a remarkable series...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052161922X
• ISBN13: 9780521619226
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"