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Author: Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 5.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.851kg
ISBN: 9780691128863
ISBN 10: 0691128863
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 03 September 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Language: English
Reviews
Praise for the previous edition: Elizabeth Wilson's magnificent new oral history, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, [is] the one indispensable book about the composer. -- Richard Taruskin The New York Times Praise for the previous edition: [Wilson] has gathered numerous recollections of Shostakovich and organized them into an enormous biography that follows every step of his life... Together, these diverse sources provide a mosaic portrait of a shy, fidgety, punctilious musician. New Yorker [T]he most important book ever published about the greatest Russian composer of the twentieth century... For the first time, Shostakovich's anguished personality comes into focus, and his emotionally devastating encounters with the Soviet government are put into trustworthy perspective. The New York Daily News
Praise for the previous edition: Elizabeth Wilson's magnificent new oral history, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, [is] the one indispensable book about the composer. -- Richard Taruskin, The New York Times Praise for the previous edition: [Wilson] has gathered numerous recollections of Shostakovich and organized them into an enormous biography that follows every step of his life... Together, these diverse sources provide a mosaic portrait of a shy, fidgety, punctilious musician. -- New Yorker [T]he most important book ever published about the greatest Russian composer of the twentieth century... For the first time, Shostakovich's anguished personality comes into focus, and his emotionally devastating encounters with the Soviet government are put into trustworthy perspective. -- The New York Daily News
[T]he most important book ever published about the greatest Russian composer of the twentieth century. . . . For the first time, Shostakovich's anguished personality comes into focus, and his emotionally devastating encounters with the Soviet government are put into trustworthy perspective. --The New York Daily News Praise for the previous edition: [Wilson] has gathered numerous recollections of Shostakovich and organized them into an enormous biography that follows every step of his life. . . . Together, these diverse sources provide a mosaic portrait of a shy, fidgety, punctilious musician. --New Yorker Praise for the previous edition: Elizabeth Wilson's magnificent new oral history, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, [is] the one indispensable book about the composer. --Richard Taruskin, The New York Times
Author Information
Elizabeth Wilson, a cellist and Russianist, studied at the Moscow State Conservatory with Mstislav Rostropovich between 1964 and 1971. She is a teacher, writer, and performer.
