Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music - Hardcover

Fry, Stephen; Lihoreau, Tim

 
9780752225340: Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0752225340 ISBN 13: 9780752225340
Verlag: Boxtree Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

'Hello, I'm Stephen the Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on "The Incomplete and Utter History of Classic 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Tim Lihoreau regularly writes with Stephen Fry and is the multi-award winning scriptwriter for the Classic FM series The Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music. He is also Creative Director for Classic FM, and lives in Cambridge.

As an actor Stephen Fry has appeared in scores of film, winning awards for his performances in Peter's Friends, Gosford Park, and Wilde. In 2003 he wrote and directed the film Bright Young Things. On television he is perhaps best known for his partnership with Hugh Laurie in four series each of the BBC's Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster for Granada Television and WGBH, Boston, as well as the Blackadder series of comedies and most recently as the presenter of the BBC's QI. For five years he has hosted the British Academy (BAFTA) Film Awards. As a writer he has written four bestselling novels and three books of non-fiction which between them have been translated into over a dozen languages. He is the Voice of the Guide in the Disney Spyglass production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is well known to a generation of young Britons as the reader of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories in audiobook form, for which he has won six awards and the thanks of parents everywhere.

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Verlag
Boxtree Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752225340
ISBN 13 
9780752225340
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
316
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