Those Twentieth Century Blues: An Autobiography

by Michael Tippett

Book Overview

Sir Michael Tippett's life has always been exceptional - expelled from prep school after prep school, from the age of seven he had to travel across war-torn Europe alone to stay with his nomadic parents in the school holidays. But he always knew that he wanted to be a composer as strongly as he knew he was homosexual. He was imprisoned during World War II as a conscientious objector when his friends - Britten, Sitwell, Eliot, Fry - all escaped prosecution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091753074
• ISBN13: 9780091753078
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.