Informationen zu "Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music"
Komponist/Autor: Tim Lihoreau
Verlag: Pan Macmillan
Verlagsnummer: 9780330438568
EAN: 9780330438568
ISBN: 978-0-330-43856-8
Beschreibung
Fry, Stephen, co-author
'Hello, I'm Stephen Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking
new feature here on The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music...
putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.'
In his Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music, Stephen Fry presents a
potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the
world as we know it. Along this musical journey he casually throws in
references to pretty much whatever takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion
of Russia and Mr Khan (Genghis to his friends), the founding of the MCC, the
Black Death (which once again became the new black in England), to the heady
revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep doo-doo that
Louis XVI got into (or 'du-du' as the French would say).
It's all here - Ambrose and early English plainsong, Bach, Mozart (beloved of
mobile phones everywhere), Beethoven, Debussy, Wagner (the old romantic),
right up to the present day. Entertaining and brilliantly written, this is a
pretty reckless romp of a history through classical music and much much more.
