Author: GARDEN, Edward
Title: Balakirev. A Critical Study of His Life and Music
Description: London, Faber & Faber, 1967. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Small tear and very light off-setting to f.e.p. Portrait frontis. 16 b/w plates, examples of music in-text, bibliography, chronology, list of works, index. Used; Very Good Typically wonderful Faber design to dust-wrapper. Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 - 1910), Russian pianist, conductor and composer known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Tchaikovsky. Hardback.

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