Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark: The Orchestration of Progress in British Twentieth-Century Music

“She was also just about the first composer in England to take up Schoenberg’s invention of the 12-tone system—the way he formalized his harmony after abandoning tonality. It was regarded as very continental and not the kind of thing English composers did, but Lutyens did it. In a way this book—which is a double biography of Lutyens and her second husband, Edward Clark—shows how that came about…Annika Forkert writes very sympathetically about both Lutyens and Clark, even though they were both impossible figures in their own ways.” Read more...

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