Description: The first comprehensive English biography to appear since the composer's death.
Review Quotes:
"A near-ideal introduction to the composer."--Gramophone
"One's only regret about [Michael Oliver's] two books is that they are not longer."--Classic CD
On the 20th Century Composers Series
"As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical."--The Scotsman