Shaw on Music
by Bernard Shaw (Author), Eric Bentley (Editor)
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This volume contains the best of Shaw's musical writing, including sections on Gl ck, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Berlioz, pieces on opera, musical analysis, oratorios, Gilbert and Sullivan, plus a long autobiographical preface, one of Shaw's most self-revealing works. The result is a book of unparalleled brilliance and grace by a writer who, according to W.H. Auden, "was probably the greatest music critic who ever lived." "For all music collections." - Library JournalTags
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Around four stars if you are not interested in opera. I'm not, yet consistently entertaining writing and trenchant criticism add a star, for anyone who enjoys those. Except:
Around three stars if you are not interested in classical music. Except:
Around two stars if you are interested in no music. Go away.
The first fifth is criticism of music criticism.
Around three stars if you are not interested in classical music. Except:
Around two stars if you are interested in no music. Go away.
The first fifth is criticism of music criticism.
Shaw was the undisputed best music critic of his day. Eric Bentley has selected his major work for this publication.
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Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines. Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and show more later began to have some of his early plays produced. Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950 at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Eric Bentley is the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.
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Anchor Books (A53)
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- Original publication date
- 1955
- People/Characters
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 to 1827); George Frideric Handel; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 to 1791); Giuseppe Verdi; Richard Wagner
- Publisher's editor
- Bentley, Eric
- Original language
- English
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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