Horns in high C : a memoir of musical discoveries and adventures / H.C. Robbins Landon
1999, First Edition. [London] : Thames and Hudson. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Crease to top-edge of dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #469800
Physical description; 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Massachusetts Bay Colony : growing up in Lancaster, 1926-1947 -- The Haydn Society : Boston and Vienna, 1949-1951 -- Behind the Iron Curtain : Haydn research in eastern Europe, 1958-1959 -- Broadcasting : BBC radio 1954-1958 and television 1963-1982, and other programmes -- Research in Austria and Germany : Gottweig Abbey and Donaueschingen, 1949-1957 -- Haydn opera revivals : Holland Festival productions, 1959-1970 -- Italian adventure : living in Tuscany, 1959-1973 -- Austrian cottage : a writer's retreat in the Waldviertel, 1975-1984 -- Welsh rectory : teaching in Cardiff and elsewher, 1978-1984 -- French chateau : at home in the Tarn, 1984 to the present. Subjects; Landon, H. C. Robbins (Howard Chandler Robbins) 1926-2009. Landon, Howard C. Robbins. Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809. Musicologists United States ; Biography. Musicians United States ; Biography.
Price: €14.95