Samuel Sebastian Wesley A Life

Name: Samuel Sebastian Wesley A Life
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ISBN: 9780198161462

ISBN-10: 0198161468

ISBN-13: 9780198161462

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter Horton

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Born into one of England's best-known families, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) was not only the foremost organist and church musician of his generation, but a vigorous campaigner for higher standards in cathedral music. He was also a troubled, difficult character, and accounts of his abrasive personality or anecdotes about his fishing exploits have tended to obscure his very real achievements as a composer.Peter Horton has drawn on a wide range of source material to produce a detailed account of Wesley's life and career as he moved from cathedral to cathedral in search of an unattainable ideal, his youthful idealism gradually giving way to the cynicism and disillusion familiar to those…

Book details

List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 406
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



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London



Wesley the Composer



Hereford



Exeter



Leeds



Winchester



Gloucester



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