The Rough Guide to Classical Music - Softcover

 
9781858282572: The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Synopsis

A guide to classical music and the lives of composers, both well-known and obscure, this text provides an A-Z of composers and key recordings.

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Review

A welcome beacon for those adrift among the aisles of classical CDs...and refreshingly not afraid to make offbeat recommendations. -- Billboard, USA

The perfect classical music primer. -- BBC Music Magazine, UK

About the Author

Jonathan Buckley was editorial director at Rough Guides, where he wrote several guidebooks, including for Tuscany and Umbria, Florence, and Venice. He has also contributed to The Rough Guide to Classical Music and The Rough Guide to Opera. Buckley published his first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, in 1997, and has written several more, including the critically acclaimed Xerxes and The River Is the River. Joe Staines is a freelance writer and the author of The Rough Guide to Classical Music and The Rough Guide to Classical Music: 100 Essential CDs, and the coauthor of Exploring Rural Portugal. BBC Music Magazine called Staines's The Rough Guide to Classical Music, "The perfect classical music primer."

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