Father and son; adolescence among the stars; the dead city; in love with Luzi; opera and operetta; the dream; music is music; a reaffirmation of beauty; classified list of works.
The design for this series received a 1995 Award for Typographical Excellence from the New York Type Directors' Club.
Jessica Duchen is a freelance music journalist whose work appears frequently in the Guardian and BBC Music Magazine. Founding Editor of Piano magazine, she is the author of Gabriel Faure, also in the 20th-Century Composers series.
"This is an inspired choice in this still early round of Phaidon's excellent, well-presented and illustrated 20th-Century Composers Series."—Classical Music "Jessica Duchen's admirable biography will do much to advance the cause of Korngold."—Jewish Chronicle On the 20th Century Composers Series "As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical."—The Scotsman
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