Musical visitors to Britain
By: David Gordon and Peter Gordon.
Contributors: Gordon, Peter, 1927-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Composers -- Travel -- Great Britain; Music -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Brothers in the art or science of music' : sixteenth century visitors; title: The restoration : new music, new faces; title: Handel : first among visitors; title: Handel : an Englishman by choice; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : 'I am a dyed-in-the-wool-Englishman'; title: Haydn in London : 'a constellation of musical excellence'; title: Interlude : the London pianoforte school; title: 'That's Weber in London!'; title: Felix Mendelssohn : a genius recognised; title: Berlioz and Wagner : a meeting of minds; title: Frederick Chopin : 'my good Scottish ladies'; title: Liszt and the wandering years; title: Antonin Dvořák : an English celebrity; title: 'This quite horrible city' : Tchaikovsky in London; title: Richard Strauss : trouble with the censor; title: Bartók and the BBC; title: The émigré composers : 'his majesty's most loyal internees'.