Cover of Stories of Symphonic Music

Stories of Symphonic Music

by Lawrence Gilman

Chapter 1 of 38 Preface

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10 h 16 min
Language
English
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Availle, DJRickyV, Grant Hicks, Greg Giordano, Jan Moorehouse and 9 others

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'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the stories behind some famous and not so famous works. - Summary by Lynne Thompson