Research Catalog

Title

Selected letters of Michael Tippett / edited by Thomas Schuttenhelm ; with a foreword by David Matthews.

Author

Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998

Publication

London : Faber and Faber, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schuttenhelm, Thomas

Description

xxiv, 456 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, Michael Tippett (1905-1998) was a prolific letter-writer. His many correspondents included family, friends and lovers, colleagues in the music world, journalists, poets, dramatists and political activists. Published to coincide with the centenary of his birth, these carefully selected letters provide us with a first-hand account of the composer's private and professional life, revealing a uniquely personal view which until now has remained largely unknown to the public." "From the bombing of his cottage in Oxted and the highs and lows of teaching amateur musicians at Morley College, to the ecstatic experience of artistic breakthrough that led to progress on a new composition, each new event and accomplishment is documented with honesty, clarity and urgency."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subjects

• Briefsammlung
• Records and correspondence
• Composers > England > Correspondence
• Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998 > Correspondence

Genre/Form

• Records and correspondence
• Briefsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / David Matthews -- Introduction / Thomas Schuttenhelm -- Adrian Boult -- BBC Collection -- Schott Collection -- Francesca Allinson -- Alan Bush -- Douglas Newton -- Benjamin Britten -- David Ayerst -- William Glock -- Edward Sackville-WEst -- Ernest Newman -- Evelyn Maude -- Covent Garden Collection -- Barbara Hepworth -- Anna Kallin -- Eric Walter White -- F.W. Sternfeld -- Ian Kemp -- Meirion Bowen -- Colin Davis -- Biographical appendix -- Tippett's life : a chronology / Alison Latham.

ISBN

0571226000

LCCN

^^2005472616

OCLC

• 62176764
• SCSB-11955795

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library