Michael Tippett: Music and Literature: Music and Literature

by Suzanne Robinson

This title was first published in 2002. One of the great composers of the 20th century, Michael Tippett found inspiration for his music amongst literary works that spanned all ages and many nations. His numerous settings of poetry, his several large works for voice and orchestra and the five operas that he wrote testify to his impressive command of literary history. The texts of these works are densely allusive, self-consciously interweaving quotations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138718939
• ISBN13: 9781138718937
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge