The Music of Aaron Copland

by Neil Butterworth

Book Overview

First survey of Copland's entire output for some 30 years - a period seeing some of his most important works.

Aaron Copland was one of the twentieth century's most popular and distinguished composers. Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, where he began his musical career, before moving to the Paris in the 1920s, where Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Les Six were the centre of attention. On his return to the United States at the end of the decade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907689078
• ISBN13: 9780907689072
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Toccata Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"