Books by Annika Forkert
“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...
Andrew Ford, Musicians, Music Critics & Scholar
Interviews where books by Annika Forkert were recommended
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Arnold Schoenberg
by Charles Rosen -
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Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century
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Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark: The Orchestration of Progress in British Twentieth-Century Music
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
by Judith Tick
The Best Music Biographies, recommended by Andrew Ford
The Best Music Biographies, recommended by Andrew Ford
Biographies of musicians are a good way to learn more about music without getting too technical, argues musicologist and composer Andrew Ford, author of the brilliant Shortest History of Music. He chooses five of his favorite music biographies, books that set “a life in the context of the times and a musical life in the context of the music.”
