Author

Publication

2005-11-17 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

65,000 words, Guess

Page Count

260 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100521023742
  • ISBN-139780521023740
  • Goodreads672380
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006276118
  • Better World Books9780521023740
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Classifications

  • LCCML410.B42 P47 2005

First Sentence

It was not long ago that London's musical public was swept into a controversy triggered off by Adolf Aber's strong words that graced the first page of The Musical Times of June 1948: the recent [Adolf] Busch concerts at Kingsway Hall stood out as high-lights of the concert season . . . the chief factor, it cannot be doubted, was the conviction that the music of Bach and Handel was being performed in the only right and proper way . . . many in the audience heard for the first time in their lives how these works ought to sound.

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